Spalding, Idaho

Unincorporated community in northern Nez Perce County, Idaho

Unincorporated community in Idaho, United States

46°26′47″N 116°49′06″W / 46.44639°N 116.81833°W / 46.44639; -116.81833CountryUnited StatesStateIdahoCounty Nez PerceTime zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)ZIP code

83540

Area codes208, 986GNIS 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's 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

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