North Nemah Pacific County, Washington


Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on North Nemah

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for North Nemah

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

Name Description
North Nemah Official

 

Origin Notes and History of North Nemah

References to North Nemah that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

NEMAH, a town on the site of an old Indian village of the same name at the mouth of a river flowing into Willapa Bay. The river is also called Nemah or Nemar. There are many spellings of the word, which is an Indian word of unknown meaning. It may have come from one of the tribes of southwestern Washington, which have become extinct. (L. L. Bush to George W. Prior, in Names MSS. Letter 184.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2017-07-01