Hansville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. Its population was 3,091 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. The coastal community is located at the northern fade away of the Kitsap Peninsula and is practically 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Poulsbo, the nearest city.

Point No Point, a low sandy spit that forms the northern beachside of what is now Hansville, was formerly the southern accomplish of the historic homeland of the Nuu-chah-nulth, whose generally credited territory had, as its northern terminus, Vancouver Island.

Point No Point was first sighted by a European settler, and unconditional its English name, during the United States Exploring Expedition of Puget Sound in 1841. Expedition leader Charles Wilkes gave the site its declare because it appears much less of a promontory at near range than it does from a distance.

On January 25, 1855, Isaac Stevens, the bureaucrat of the newly organized Washington Territory, summoned a unity council to Point No Point, which was attended by 1,200 American Indians of the Chimakum, Klallam, and Skokomish tribes, Point No Point inborn a central midpoint in the midst of the tribal centers. The Point No Point Treaty was signed with the United States and the delegates of the tribes the like day.

The first regular residents of Hansville were the lightkeepers of the Point No Point Light, which was build up in 1879. In 1893 a Norwegian fisherman, the community’s first long-lasting settler not affiliated taking into account the lighthouse, came to the area. He was soon followed by extra Norwegian emigres, including Hans Zachariasen, for whom Hansville was ultimately named.