Port Crescent Clallam County, Washington


Mapped Location

Port Crescent: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Port Crescent

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Port Crescent

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

Name Description
Port Crescent Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Port Crescent

References to Port Crescent that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

LAKE CRESCENT, in the northern part of Clallam County. Up to 1890, the lake was variously known as Lake Everett, Big Lake and Lake Crescent. In that year the Port Crescent Improvement Company was booming its townsite, which was but seven miles from the lake. M. J. Carrigan started the Port Crescent Leader and agitated the beauties and name of the lake. The name is now well established. The lake has become a great resort, reached mostly by way of Port Angeles. (D. A. Christopher, Piedmont, in Names MSS., Letter 252.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2017-07-02