City of Pierce Clearwater County, Idaho


Mapped Location

City of Pierce: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on City of Pierce

  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Pierce

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
City of Pierce Official
Pierce Official

 

Origin Notes and History of City of Pierce

References to City of Pierce that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography

ORO FINO CREEK, Clearwater County.—This word is of Spanish origin brought from the south and means "Oro," "gold" and "Fino," "pure" and was applied to this stream by Capt. E. D. Pierce of California, the leader of the discovery party that struck placer diggings on this creek in 1860. The creek on which the party camped they named Oro Fino and the gulch where the gold was discovered and which opened into the creek was called Canal Gulch and is the place where placer gold was first mined to any extent in this state. Their camp grew into a town afterwards called Pierce City for Captain Pierce, the discoverer. —BANCROFT, History of Washington, Idaho and Montana.

John E. Rees, B. Sc. in Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography

 

Last updated: 2017-01-10