Palisades Douglas County, Washington
Mapped Location
Palisades: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Palisades
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Palisades
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Palisades | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Palisades
References to Palisades that document the origin of its place name
PALISADES, a town on the Great Northern Railway, in the southern part of Douglas County. The name has reference to the sharp pointed basaltic rocks so characteristically a part of the walls of Moses Coulee, and was bestowed in 1906 by George A. Virtue of Seattle. The same region at the mouth of Douglas Canyon was formerly known as Beulah Land. (Irving B. Vestal, in Names MSS., Letter 80.)
Douglas County
- Alstown
- Appledale
- Baird (historical)
- Beebe
- Brandts Landing
- City of Bridgeport
- Broadway
- Crown Point Vista
- Douglas
- Downing
- Dyer
- City of East Wenatchee
- Fairview
- Farmer
- Howard
- Jameson (historical)
- Lamoine
- Leahy
- Town of Mansfield
- Matthiesen (historical)
- McCarteney
- McLeans Orchard (historical)
- Mold
- Mud Spring
- Nilles Corner
- Okanogan City (historical)
- Orondo
- Osborne Corner
- Palisades
- Patterson (historical)
- City of Rock Island
- Rocky Butte
- Saint Andrews
- Saint Hubert (historical)
- Sims Corner
- Sunny Hill
- Supplee
- Terrace Park
- Touhey
- Voltage
- Town of Waterville
- Withrow
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2017-03-05