Portneuf Bannock County, Idaho
Mapped Location
Portneuf: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Portneuf
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Portneuf
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Portneuf | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Portneuf
References to Portneuf that document the origin of its place name
PORTNEUF RIVER, Bannock County.—This stream was named for a Hudson Bay trapper who was with Peter Skene Ogden's Snake country expedition of 1825 and who that year was murdered by the Bannack Indians while making the rounds to his traps along this stream. The ill-starred canyon of the Portneuf, memorable in all its early and recent history for murder, robbery and disaster, has been a favorable haunt for stage robbers and highwaymen. Its flow is constantly interrupted by low lava rock dams, resulting in quiet pools and successive cascades from an inch to four feet in height, from which incident some think that this "gate way of rocks" gave the name to the canyon, as the Canadians, many of whom trapped this stream, which was considered one of the best beaver streams in the West, would say "Port" meaning "gate" and "neuf, "ninth" or the stream with "nine gates" along its course.—LANGFORD, Vigilante Days and Ways
Bannock County
- City of Arimo
- Blackrock
- Cambridge
- City of Chubbuck
- Dempsey (historical)
- Downata Hot Springs
- City of Downey
- Hawkins
- City of Inkom
- City of Lava Hot Springs
- Marsh Valley
- City of McCammon
- City of Pocatello
- Portneuf
- Red Rock Junction
- Robin
- Swan Lake
- Swanlake
- Topaz (historical)
- Tyhee
- Virginia
- Zenda
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2016-12-21