Mabana Island County, Washington


Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Mabana

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Mabana

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

Name Description
Mabana Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Mabana

References to Mabana that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

MABANA, a postoffice on the southwestern shore of Camano Island in Island County, named by J. A. Woodard on May 15, 1912, in honor of Miss Mabel Anderson, daughter of Nils Anderson, an old settler who had come from San Francisco in 1881. The "Mab" was taken from Mabel, the "an" from Anderson and the "a" was added for convenience. (Nils Anderson, in Names MSS., Letter 369.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2017-07-03