Name: Bannock Ford

 

County: Park

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1102237W

Latitude: 445337N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6188/1886

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Crossing

 

Origin of Name:

Named from a tribe of Indians. This tribe inhabited the country southwest of Yellowstone Park, finally settling on a reservation in southern Idaho. Some authorities give the drivation from bannai' hti "southern people."

Source: Gannett

 

Other Names: 

 

Alternative Spellings:

 

History:

Just above the mouth of Tower Creek is the old Bannock Ford over the Yellowstone, a crossing of immemorial antiquity and the same that was used by Colter in 1807.

Source: Chittenden

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Tower Junction

 

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