West Pasco Franklin County, Washington
Mapped Location
West Pasco: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on West Pasco
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for West Pasco
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| West Pasco | Official |
Origin Notes and History of West Pasco
References to West Pasco that document the origin of its place name
PASCO, a town near the junction of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, and the county seat of Franklin County. The name was bestowed by Virgil Gay Bogue, Location Engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad. At that time the place was dusty, hot and disagreeable. He had read of a disagreeable town in Mexico by that name and gave it to the new station with no suspicion that it would become an important county seat and railroad center. (F. W. Dewart, Spokane, in Names MSS. Letter 599.) Another version is that Harry McCartney, associated with Mr. Bogue as locating engineers, named it by way of contrast. Pasco was the flattest and hottest place he had found while Cerro de Pasco, Peru, was the highest and coldest place he han ever been in. (Lewis A. MsArthur, in Names MSS. Letter 606.)
Franklin County
- Ainsworth Junction
- Basin City
- Cactus
- City of Connell
- Curry
- Davin
- Edwards
- Eltopia
- Estes
- Farrington
- Five Corners
- Glade
- Harder
- Joso
- City of Kahlotus
- Levey
- Martindale
- Mathews Corner
- McAdam
- City of Mesa
- Myers
- City of Pasco
- Pasco West
- Perry
- Redd
- Riverview
- Riverview
- Sagemoor
- Schlomer
- Sperry
- Sulphur
- Wacota
- West Pasco
- Windust
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2017-07-03