Snoqualmie Falls King County, Washington

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Snoqualmie Falls

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Snoqualmie Falls

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

Name Description
Snoqualmie Falls Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Snoqualmie Falls

References to Snoqualmie Falls that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

SNOQUALMIE, the name of a tribe of Indians, of a river, a pass through the Cascade Range, and a sawmill town near the beautiful falls, also of the same name, in King and Snohomish Counties. On most of the earlier maps the spelling was "Snoqualmoo." The river joins with the Skykomish River near Monroe, forming the Snohomish River. The white men have softened the native word Sdoh-kwahlb-bhuh; which refers to the legend that their people came from the moon. Sdoh-kwahlb means moon. (Charles M. Buchanan, Indian Agent at Tulalip, in Names MSS. Letter 155.) Colonel J. Patton Anderson visited the falls in July, 1852. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Floyd Jones, of the United States Infantry. Only one white man had visited them before that. (James G. Swan, Northwest Coast, page 395.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 280  |  Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

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Last updated: 2017-07-03