Menlo Pacific County, Washington

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Menlo

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Menlo

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

Name Description
Menlo Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Menlo

References to Menlo that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

MENLO, a town in the central part of Pacific County. When the Northern Pacific Railway Company was building the branch line to Willapa Harbor, option real estate dealers were active. A flag station was located on the property of Lindley Preston to be known as "Preston." John Brophy, of California, had an option on the homestead of Horace Hastings, three quarters of a mile south. To boom his place he called it Menlo Park, after the Bidwell estate in California. The construction crew of the railroad, finding that "Preston" had already been used as a railroad station name and needing a name for their new station, took Brophy's big sign. They cut off the word "Park" and in that way Menlo was placed on the railroad and later on the maps. (E. W. Lilly, in Names MSS., Letter 574.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 164  |  Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Pacific County

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Last updated: 2017-06-30