Name: Jackson Hole

County: Teton

Authority Name: Jackson Hole (Wyo.)

GNIS Entry 

Longitude: 1104124W

Latitude: 434104N 

Legal Description:

Elevation:  6506/1983

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Basin

Origin of Name:

Named after David E. Jackson by Willliam L. Sublette of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.

Source: Annals 14(3)

Alternative Spellings: 

Other Names: Jackson's Hole, Teton Valley

History:

Stories:

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Moose

Newspapers:

More Information:

A Place Called Jackson Hole by John Daugherty 

Pictures:

Photograph by W. C. Alden  September 15, 1925

Jackson Hole and Gros Ventre Mountains, east from Teton Pass. Jackson Hole is behind one of the fault blocks which rise

above the flat back (east) of Snake River. T. 2 N., R. 119 W. Lincoln County, Wyoming.