Resource Library by Subject - P

These resource library subjects are listed in alphabetical order.

Look for the green subject headings to guide you through the topics.

Peregrine Falcon

     Publication Name   Banks Lake South Peregrine Falcon Territory (Occurrence 76)

                         ID #   163

                   Authors   Musser, John

       Publication Date   1999

            Produced By   Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife - Wenatchee

                Summary   Banks Lake south peregrine falcon territory survey data.

Petroleum Contaminated Soils

     Publication Name   Proposed Hunt Farms Petroleum Contaminated Soils (PCS) Remediation Site, (information file)

                         ID #   374

                   Authors

       Publication Date   No Date

            Produced By

                Summary   This is a file on the Hunt Farms proposed Petroleum Contaminated Soils (PCS) remediation site.  As of

                                 July 7, 2000 the project is still in the proposal and permit application stages.  This file contains the

                                 following materials:  pictures of an on-site field visit; a letter to the editor, published in the June 8, 2000

                                 edition of the Empire Press and a newspaper article titled "Soil plan foes entrenched" published in the June

                                 20, 2000 issue of the Wenatchee World; the "Operations Plan, Hunt Farms PCS Remediation Plots, March

                                 27, 2000"; the Conditional Use Permit application made to Douglas County Transportation and Land

                                 Services (DCT&LS), dated April 20, 2000; the "Notice of Application" from DCT&LS issued May 8, 2000;

                                 correspondence by "Concerned Citizens of Douglas County," to DCT&LS dated May 15, 2000; Foster

                                 Creek Conservation District technician's notes on the PCS application process and procedure, dated May

                                 31, 2000; correspondence from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to DCT&LS, dated May 22,

                                  2000; correspondence from the Foster Creek Conservation District to DCT&LS, dated June 6, 2000; and a

                                 "Notice of Permit Review Time Limit Suspended" dated June 15, 2000, from DCT&LS to Hunt Farms.

                                

                                 For more information see contact notes below.

Place Names of Douglas County

     Publication Name   Alameda

                         ID #   90

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Alameda - Community on the South bank of the Columbia River in northeastern Douglas County; named in

                                 1907 when a Post Office was established by an early settler named Vernile F. Hopkins. [Alameda is

                                 evidently for the city of that name in California.]

                                

                                 S. 4; T. 30 N.; R. 29 E.

     Publication Name   Badger Mountain

                         ID #   91

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Badger Mountain - Cascade Mountain spur, extends 14 miles northwest & southwest.  Maximum elevation

                                 4,300 feet in southwestern Douglas County.  June 7, 1841 named by Lieut. Robert E. Johnson of the Wilkes

                                 Expedition - called it Mt. St. Pierre.  Current name dates back to pioneer days, relates to common badger

                                 that lives on mountain.

                                

                                 Ts 23, 24 N.; Rs 12, 22 E.

     Publication Name   Banks Lake

                         ID #   97

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Banks Lake - Man-made reservoir 30 mi. long with a  43 sq. mi. area within the Columbia River's

                                 prehistoric channel, from Dry Falls Dam near Coulee City northeast to Grand Coulee.  Named by

                                 reclamation engineers for Frank A. Banks, superintendent of Grand Coulee Dam construction & other

                                 reclamation structures - died 1957.

                                

                                 Ts 25 - 28 N.; Rs 28 - 30 E.

     Publication Name   Beebe

                         ID #   89

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Beebe - Northwest Douglas County, 3 miles East of Chelan; named in December 1912 when a Post Office

                                 was established for James Beebe of Wakefield, Mass.  Beebe was the president of Wenatchee-Chelan

                                 Orchard Company.

     Publication Name   Chief Joseph Dam

                         ID #   92

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Chief Joseph Dam - spans the Columbia River from South Central Okanogan & North Central Douglas

                                 Counties.  Located 3-1/2 miles southeast of Bridgeport & at mouth of Foster Creek.  In June 14, 1948 the

                                 name was changed from Foster Creek dam to Chief Joseph Dam by Senate Joint Resolution 229 of 80th

                                 Congress.  In 1950 Wenatchee residents tried to change name of dam to honor Rufus Woods- a local

                                 newspaper publisher - Native American Indians objected so NezPerce Chief name was kept.  However, the

                                 pool created by the dam carries the name Rufus Woods.

                                

                                 S. 14; T. 29 N.; R. 25 E.

     Publication Name   Corbaley Canyon

                         ID #   93

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Corbaley Canyon - 10 miles long.  Starts 5 miles South of Waterville extends southwest to Columbia River

                                 near Orondo.  In 1885 - named by County Commissioners for Platt M. Corbaley who settled in the head of

                                 the canyon in 1883.  Was a former wagon road route between Wenatchee & Waterville Pre 1916.

                                  

                                 Ts 25, 26 N.; Rs 21, 22 E.

     Publication Name   Del Rio

                         ID #   101

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Delrio - 19 mi. east of Bridgeport.  6-1/2 mi. south of Columbia River in northeast Douglas County.  First

                                 name was Lella, suggested by an early postmaster for his wife's name.  Current name applied to the Post

                                 Office by Violet Bailey, granddaughter of postmistress A. C. Earl.  Violet submitted name as Del Rio

                                 because of location near the great river.  Postal authorities ran words together.

                                

                                 S. 13; T. 29 N.; R. 28 E.

     Publication Name   Douglas

                         ID #   94

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Douglas - 3 mi. southeast of Waterville; in southwest Douglas County, named after the county, county

                                 named for U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

                                

                                 S. 31; T. 25 N.; R. 23 E.

     Publication Name   Douglas County

                         ID #   85

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Douglas County - 1,841 square miles;  On November 28, 1883 Douglas County was created from a portion

                                 of Lincoln County by the Territorial Legislature, four days after Lincoln County had been established. 

                                 Douglas County was named after Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois between 1847 & 1861 and

                                 a two time presidential candidate.

     Publication Name   Jameson

                         ID #   98

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Jameson - Small settlement, south of Mansfield and 3 mi. northwest of Jameson Lake (Central Douglas

                                 County).  Named for old settler, lived near a lake 3 mi. southeast that also bears his name.

                                

                                 S. 26; T. 26 N.; R. 25 E.

     Publication Name   Jameson Lake

                         ID #   99

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Jameson Lake - Lake in Moses Coulee, 8 mi. south of Mansfield.

                                

                                 Ss 1, 12; T. 25 N.; R. 25 E.

     Publication Name   Leahy

                         ID #   95

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Leahy - Settlement 21 mi. northeast of Mansfield, 8 mi. South of Columbia River.  In 1884 founded by

                                 Michael Richard Leahy, an early cattleman, & was named for him or his brother, James B. Leahy, who

                                 served as postmaster at the Leahy post office.

                                

                                 S. 14; T. 28 N.; R. 27 E.

     Publication Name   Mansfield

                         ID #   87

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Mansfield - 13 miles South of Bridgeport.  Named in 1905 by R. E. Darling.  When a post office was

                                 established for his home town in Ohio; Ohio town was named for Colonel Jared Mansfield; Darling named

                                 the town Mansfield.

     Publication Name   Moses Coulee

                         ID #   96

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Moses Coulee - Heads in Central Douglas County; runs southwest - 50 mi. through the center of the

                                 County to the Columbia River.  It is a large coulee with intermittent streams and the coulee was formed in

                                 prehistoric times by glacial action.  Named for Chief Moses, a famous Indian warrior & diplomat, who

                                 favored the Coulee as a winter camp, usually at the mouth of Douglas Canyon.

                                

                                 Ts 20-27 N.; Rs 22-26 E.

     Publication Name   Orondo

                         ID #   81

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   ORONDO-Community at the mouth of Pine, or Corbaley Canyon, 14 miles north of Wenatchee, west

                                 Douglas County.  In 1886, this place was named by its founder, J. B. Smith, for Orondo, and Indian whose

                                 tribe worked ancient Lake Superior copper mines.  Smith explained that "Orondo was the superintendent of

                                 the ancient Lake Superior copper mines, who had about 1,000 miners under his charge when their native

                                 continent (Atlantis) sunk beneath the ocean.  They took native wives and were the progenitors of the Mound

                                 Builders. . ."  According to Smith, these early miners are presumed to have escaped from their sinking

                                 continent by way of an isthmus which joined it to the North American continent.

                                

                                 S. 32; T. 25 N.; R. 21 E.

     Publication Name   Palisades

                         ID #   100

                   Authors   Hitchman, Robert

       Publication Date   1985

            Produced By   Place Names of Douglas County

                Summary   Palisades - Village in Moses Coulee, 11 mi. south of Waterville, located in southwest Douglas County,

                                 once known as Beulah Land.  Current name came from George A. Virtue of Seattle in 1906.  Sharp-pointed

                                 basaltic rocks along Coulee give effect to Palisades.

                                

                                 S. 11; T. 22 N.; R. 23 E.

     Publication Name   Rock Island Dam

                         ID #   82

                   Authors