Almota Whitman County, Washington

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Almota

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Almota

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

Name Description
Almota Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Almota

References to Almota that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

ALMOTA, a town and three creeks in Whitman County. The creeks are West Almota, Little Almota and Almota. Rev. Myron Eells is authority for the statement that the name is a corruption of the Nez Perce word "Allamotin," meaning "torch-light fishery." Lewis and Clark camped there on October 11, 1805, and mention the Indian houses which John Work of the Hudson's Bay Company found and described in his journal of 1825.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 5  |  Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Whitman County

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2017-01-19