Chimacum Jefferson County, Washington
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General information on Chimacum
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Chimacum
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Chimacum | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Chimacum
References to Chimacum that document the origin of its place name
CHIMACUM, a town on a creek of the same name in Jefferson County. The name is that of a small but brave tribe of Indians who lived between Port Townsend and Hood Canal. The tribe is now supposed to be almost extinct. The name is sometimes spelled Chimakum.
Related Catalog Titles
A Bibliography for Chimacum, Jefferson County, Washington
Chimacum In the valley near the water by Nancy L. McDaniel
"In the Valley, Near the Water" are the first words of Chimacum High School's Alma Mater song. Written by Duane Montgomery, cherished music director, those words have a special meaning for Chimacum residents.
Published in 2023 by local historian Nancy L. McDaniel, Chimacum: In the Valley Near the Water provides an intimate local history of the Chimacum Valley and its surrounding agricultural communities on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The narrative chronicles the area's transition from ancestral indigenous homelands to a bustling hub of pioneer farming, timber harvesting, and dairy production driven by 19th-century homesteaders. Drawing on extensive family archives, oral histories, and photographs, the book meticulously reconstructs the daily lives, schoolhouses, and community networks of early settlers. A keen insight drawn from the text is how its granular, bottom-up preservation of rural genealogy reveals the quiet, persistent labor required to carve an agrarian society out of a heavily forested frontier, offering a localized counterweight to grand narratives of Pacific Northwest expansion.
277 pages
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Jefferson County
- Adelma Beach
- Beaver Valley
- Bees Mill
- Bridgehaven
- Brinnon
- Camp Discovery
- Chimacum
- Clearwater
- Coyle
- Dabob
- Discovery Bay
- Discovery Junction
- Duckabush
- Eaglemount
- East Quilcene
- Fairmont
- Fort Flagler
- Four Corners
- Gardiner
- Glen Cove
- Hoh
- Irondale
- Kalaloch
- Lackawanna Beach
- Leland
- Marrowstone
- Mats Mats
- Maynard
- McGees (historical)
- Nordland
- Oil City
- Port Discovery
- Port Hadlock
- Port Ludlow
- City of Port Townsend
- Queets
- Quilcene
- Seal Rock
- Shine-Gri-La
- Smith Place
- Swansonville
- Tukey
- Uncas
- Woodmans
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Last updated: 2025-09-23