Toutle Cowlitz County, Washington
Mapped Location
Toutle: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Toutle
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Toutle
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Toutle | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Toutle
References to Toutle that document the origin of its place name
TOUTLE RIVER, a tributary of the Cowlitz River, may have derived its name from Indians referred to by Lewis and Clark on March 27, 1806. They wrote of the Cowlitz River as "Coweliskee" and continuing: "On the same river, above the Skilloots, resides the nation called Hullooetell, of whom we learnt nothing, except that the nation was numerous." (Journals, Elliott Coues edition, Volume III., page 911.) The Wilkes Expedition, 1841, first charted the present name of Toutle River. ( Hydrography, Volume XXIII., Atlas, chart 67.) The railroad surveyors, in 1853, showed the river as "Seh-quu." (Pacific Railroad Reports, Volume XI., Part II., chart 3.) The Bureau of American Ethnology says Sekwu is the Klickitat name of a village at the fork of the Cowlitz River, presumably belonging to the Cowlitz tribe. (Handbook of American Indians, Volume II., page 500.) The present name of the river was restored in 1856. (Preston's Map of Oregon and Washington West of the Cascade Mountains.) Subsequent maps have shown the name as Toutle River although old settlers use the local name of "East Fork of the Cowlitz." (Mrs. E. B. Huntington, of Castle Rock, in Names MSS. Letter 158.) For years, Silver Lake, six miles northeast of Castle Rock, was known as "Toutle Lake." A town on the river, in the central part of Cowlitz County wears the name of Toutle.
Cowlitz County
- Ariel
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- Bunker Hill
- Caples
- Caples Landing
- Carrolls
- City of Castle Rock
- Coal Creek
- Columbia Heights
- Columbia Valley Gardens
- Cougar
- Davis Terrace
- Eufaula
- Eufaula Heights
- Evergreen Terrace
- Harrington Place
- Headquarters
- City of Kalama
- City of Kelso
- Kid Valley
- Lexington
- City of Longview
- Longview Heights
- Longview Junction
- Monticello (historical)
- Oak Point
- Olequa
- Ostrander
- Pigeon Springs
- Pleasant Hill
- Rose Valley
- Ryderwood
- Saint Helens
- Sandy Bend
- Sightly
- Silver Lake
- Stella
- Toutle
- Valley View Tracts
- Vision Acres
- West Kelso
- West Longview
- City of Woodland
- Woodland Park
- Yale
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Last updated: 2024-06-04