Saint Helens Cowlitz County, Washington
Mapped Location
Saint Helens: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Saint Helens
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Saint Helens
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Saint Helens | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Saint Helens
References to Saint Helens that document the origin of its place name
SAINT HELENS, a town in the northwestern part of Cowlitz County. See Mount Saint Helens for the origin of the name.
MOUNT SAINT HELENS, in the northeastern part of Skamania County. Elevation, 9,671 feet. (Henry Landes: A Geographic Dictionary of Washington, page 244.) In May, 1792, Captain George Vancouver saw the mountain from Puget Sound. In the following October, while off the shore near the mouth of the Columbia River he saw it again and named it "in honor of His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Madrid. (Voyage of Discovery, second edition, Volume II., page 399.) In the Hall J. Kelley scheme for names in the "Presidents' Range," Mount Saint Helens was to have been "Mount Washington." It was for a time confused with Mount Adams in the same latitude. The Indian name is said to have been Louwala-clough meaning "smoking mountain." (Oregon Native Son in The Washington Historian, September, 1899, page 52.) The volcano is said to have been in eruption as late as 1842. (James G. Swan: The Northwest Coast, 1857, page 395.)
Cowlitz County
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Last updated: 2024-06-04