BURLEY, WASHINGTON

'Burley' is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington. The community is located just north of the boundary with Pierce County, and about half way between Gig Harbor to the south and Port Orchard to the north. It is located at the head of the Burley Lagoon in Henderson Bay. Burley is a residential area.
Burley was established in the 1890s by a group called the ''Co-operative Brotherhood'' as a cooperative socialist colony. It was originally named Circle City, with buildings laid out on the periphery of a circle. When the colony failed in 1908, the present name was adopted for the creek that runs past town, which is the namesake of an early settler who was not a member of the colony.