Spalding, Idaho

Spalding, Idaho
Unincorporated community
Nez Perce encampment at Spalding, 1899
Nez Perce encampment at Spalding, 1899
Spalding is located in Idaho
Spalding
Spalding
Location in Idaho
Spalding is located in the United States
Spalding
Spalding
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 46°26′47″N 116°49′06″W / 46.44639°N 116.81833°W / 46.44639; -116.81833
CountryUnited States
StateIdaho
CountyNez Perce
Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
83540
Area codes208, 986
GNIS feature ID397192[1]

Spalding is an unincorporated community in the northwest United States, located in northern Nez Perce County, Idaho.[2]

Description

The community is located ten miles (16 km) east and upstream of Lewiston, on the Clearwater River, at the mouth of the Lapwai Valley. U.S. Route 95 runs through the community and has a junction with U.S. Route 12 just west of town.[3] Spalding is part of the Lewiston, ID-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village was named after Reverend Henry Spalding,[4] a missionary who taught the neighboring Nez Percé irrigation.

The headquarters and visitor center for the Nez Perce National Historical Park are located at Spalding.

This place is notable as the birthplace of Lillian Disney, the wife of Walt Disney.

In the 1966 film El Dorado, John Wayne rode a six-year-old Appaloosa stallion named Zip, from Spalding.[5]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spalding, Idaho
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spalding
  3. ^ "Spalding, Idaho 83540" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  4. ^ Rees, John E. (1918). Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography. W.B. Conkey Company. p. 114.
  5. ^ "Appaloosa stars with John Wayne". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). December 7, 1965. p. 7.
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