San de Fuca Island County, Washington

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on San de Fuca

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for San de Fuca

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

Name Description
San de Fuca Official

 

Origin Notes and History of San de Fuca

References to San de Fuca that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

SAN DE FUCA, a town on the shore of Penn Cove, Whidhey Island, in the northeastern part of Island County. The Holbrook donation land claim was acquired by Henry C. Power and in 1889 a townsite was platted by L. H. Griffiths, H. C. Power and J. W. Gillespie. In choosing a name, they evidently confused the names of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and San Juan Island. Whatever else may be said of the mythical Juan de Fuca, he certainly was no saint. (Edmond S. Meany: History of the State of Washington ,pages 15-16.) The little town of San de Fuca has not grown but from its neighborhood there have gone many young men who have achieved careers as seamen and steamboat men.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 235  |  Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Island County

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Last updated: 2017-07-03