Various spellings for Lieser Point have been "Leiser Point" and "Seiser Point". The U.S. Board of Geographic Names made "Lieser Point" official in 1962.

The 1852 Cadastral Survey (tax survey) for T1N R2E shows a road from the area of todays Lieser Point, follows the Columbia River until it reaches the Hudson's Bay Company Mills (today the location of the Vancouver Trout Hatchery), swings inland and then heads once again south ending at the location of today's Fishers Landing. A farming area is depicted at Lieser Point.

The 1863 Cadastral Survey (tax survey) has "Lewis Seiser" having 639.87 acres (claim no.62) for T2N R2E Section 32, and 2.24 acres (claim no.44) for T1N R2E Section 5.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records website (2007) shows a listing for Eliza Heirs of Sieser, and Louis Sieser being granted title to 637.11 acres on September 20, 1866, for parts of T1N R2E Section 5, and T2N R2E Sections 29, 30, 31, and 32, under the Oregon-Donation Act of 1850.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records website (2007) also shows a Louis Lieser being granted title to 240 acres a few miles north in T3N R2 Sections 11 and 12 (the Orchards area) on December 20, 1867 (Sale-Cash Entry of 1820) and 320 acres of T3N R2E Sections 2 and 11 on September 20, 1869 (Sale-Cash Entry of 1820).

The 1888 "Clarke County, Washington Territory" map shows a Donation Land Claim in Section 32 for "L. Leiser".