Johns Island (Washington)
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San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands are an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the US mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of the U.S...
in San Juan County, Washington, USA. It lies just east of Stuart Island
Stuart Island (Washington)
Stuart Island is one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, USA, north of San Juan Island and west of Waldron Island. The island is home to two communities of full and part-time residents, a state park, a one-room schoolhouse, and two airstrips .The 2000 census...
and north of Spieden Island
Spieden Island
Spieden Island is a privately owned island in the San Juan Archipelago in the U.S. state of Washington...
Johns Island is home to Camp Nor'wester, a summer camp for kids on the west end of the island, and several private vacation cabins on the east end of the island. It has a land area of 0.9083 km² (0.3507 sq mi, or 224.45 acre
Acre
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s). As with many of the outlying San Juan Islands, Johns Island does not have electricity or plumbing. There was a resident population of five persons as of the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...
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