3 installations

Military bases near Tacoma, WA

3 mapped installations within approximately 75 miles of the Tacoma, WA postal-place center, ordered by straight-line distance.

Understand the installation mix

The locations in this directory span 1 Joint, 2 Navy. Those categories describe the map group, while each guide explains the public mission and support context. Joint bases appear in the Joint category.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord

The base lies near Lakewood and Tacoma in lower Puget Sound, north of Olympia.

Official sources: Joint Base Lewis-McChord: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Naval Base Kitsap

The base's components occupy Kitsap County across Puget Sound from Seattle, including the Bremerton and Bangor areas.

Official sources: Naval Base Kitsap: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Naval Station Everett

Everett is in Snohomish County north of Seattle, in the Puget Sound region.

Official sources: Naval Station Everett: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Installation guides near Tacoma, WA

Navy

Naval Base Kitsap

Bremerton–Bangor, Washington

Approximately 36 miles from the city postal-place center, straight line.

Provides shore support for western Puget Sound Navy forces. Supports submarine and surface ship readiness.

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Plan around your actual assignment

A base name or city is a starting point. Identify the gaining organization, reporting destination and support community before choosing lodging or housing. Training sites, Reserve locations and permanent installations may have different arrangements. Use the installation guides for the published destination labels, official contacts and a saveable arrival checklist.

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Coverage and distance method

This is a curated directory, not an inventory of every military property. State lists use the state named in the installation’s listed community and do not describe every boundary or satellite site.

Metro lists include mapped points within 75 miles of an approximate center averaged from GeoNames postal-place records for Tacoma, WA. A straight-line radius is not a metropolitan boundary or a driving commute. Installation map points do not identify entry gates.

Postal places adapted from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0.