The Columbia River - Image, Vancouver, Washington

Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
Image and Russell, Vancouver, Washington"

Includes ... Image ... Image Canoe Island ... Russell ... Russell Landing ... Russell's Landing ...

Image, 2011, SE Image Road, Vancouver, Washington, click to enlarge

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Sign, SE Image Road, Vancouver, Washington. Image taken July 3, 2011.

Image, Washington ...

"Image" was a small Vancouver, Washington, community located on the bank of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 111. Upstream is Ellsworth and the Vancouver Trout Hatchery, and downstream is Lieser Point and Wintler Park. Directly across the Columbia River from Image is the Portland International Airport.

Image, 2011, Image area, Vancouver, Washington, click to enlarge

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End of the road, Image area, Vancouver, Washington. Image taken July 3, 2011.

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Early Image and Russell Landing ...

According to Robert Hitchman in Place Names of Washington (1985):

"Image: Suburb on the north bank of Columbia River, 4 miles east of Vancouver, south central Clark County. The name is a shortened version of Image Canoe Island, which was the name applied to a nearby island in 1905 by Lewis and Clark. An earlier name for the town was Russell Landing."

Note: "Image Canoe Island" is today's Hayden Island, located across the Columbia from Image.

An 1884 and 1888 Plat Maps of Clark County (courtesy "rootsweb.com" website, 2011), the upper right corner of T_N, R_E, Section 3, has the Donation Land Claims of W.F. Crate (and Sohney Schuele) and E.J. Taylor (and Lewis P. Love).

Early maps of Washington made by The George F. Cram Company show the development of the early Columbia River communities east of Vancouver, including Image, Ellsworth, and Fisher.

Cram's 1883 "Rail road & township map of Washington" shows "Vancouver" and the "Fisher's P.O.".
The 1889 "Railroad and county map of Washington" shows "Vancouver", "Vancouver Barracks", and the "Fisher's".
The 1904 "Map of Washington" shows "Vancouver" and "Vancouver Sta." with "Fisher" to the east.
Cram's 1911 map however lists "Vancouver" and "V. Sta.", "Image", "Ellsworth", and then "Fisher".
Their 1925 map of Washington shows only "Vancouver", "Ellseworth", and "Fisher".

Plate VIII of the 1909 publication U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 387, "Structural Materials in Parts of Oregon and Washington" by N.H. Darton, is captioned "Clay Pit at Russell Landing, 4 miles Above Vancouver, Wash.".

The ca.1915-1922 Plat Map for Clarke County (found on "Rootsweb.com") shows both communities "Image", "Ellsworth", and "Fishers".

According to the "columbian.com" website (2011):

"Russell: In this community about 5 miles east of Vancouver, there was a Russell School for many years. David Russell came to the West Coast via the Isthmus of Panama. He took up a homestead in Battle Ground and lived there until 1882, when he moved to a dairy farm above Washougal. Mr. Russell was the Clark County Territorial Representative from 1873 to 1875. Russell's Landing was at the end of Image Road."

From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

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^*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003

Sources: "Columbian.com" website, 2011, "Names in Clark County"; Darton, N.H., 1909, Structural Materials in Parts of Oregon and Washington, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 387; Hitchman, R., 1985, Place Names of Washington, Washington State Historical Society. "Rootsweb.com" website, 2011;

All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.