Pend Oreille County Cities

  

• Cities are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right •

NOTE: City Naming History adapted from the book Washington State Place Names (8th Printing, 1997)
with permission from the Publisher: University of Washington Press.
Pend Oreille County
 Pend Oreille County's Web Site
25th Largest County by Area - County Seat: Newport
county map

Pend Oreille County, in the Okanogan Highland Valley, is located in the northeast corner of the state. The county was named by a French trapper who discovered a Native-American tribe in the area wearing dangling earring pendants, and therefore named it after these devices. Pend Oreille was established as a county on November 11, 1911.  
Pend Oreille was the last county in WA State to be created.