Talk:Stuck River (Washington)

If I read this correctly, the Stuck River is now completely part of the White river? Perhaps we should merge the two articles? --Measure 00:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes the entire Stuck is now the White River's last reach before joining the Puyallup River. On lots of maps the words "Stuck River" are still printed along the White River in this reach.  It does seem as if the info on the Stuck River could easily just be part of the White River page. Pfly 01:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Stuck still legally distinct in some ways
The White has taken over the course of the Stuck, but the Stuck is still referenced in place names and legal descriptions, so it might still deserve its own article, however brief. Many popular maps still call the river the White River north of the county line and the Stuck River south of the county line, e.g. Thomas Guide maps, and King County still uses Stuck River in the name of one of the flood control levies on the southern White River. Jmputnam 04:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Name origin
I found and added two sources that say the name comes from an Indian source. I left in the claim that it came from the community of "Stuck" even though it seems dubious. One of the sources I found indicating an Indian origin is from the same website that the "community of Stuck" claim is sourced to (the Whilte River Journal). Usually communities are named after rivers rather than the other way around. I think the community of Stuck was named after the river and Dave Sprau in his article jumped to a false conclusion (unless by community he meant one of the Indian villages, but it doesn't read that way). But without more information I am not positive, so I left it in and added the words "probably" and "possibly" to the two claims. I also took out a recently added sentence that said about the many changes in the river's location and flow regime in the late 1800s: These many changes of the river's location also helped contribute to the word "stuck" being given as part of its name. This claim is without a source and strikes me as unlikley--did the river have no name until the late 1800s? The idea seems especially unlikely given the many many local Indian villages, peoples, and localities with names very much like "Stuck", as described at length in the White River Journal article "Archaeology of the White River Valley" I added as a reference. It is possible, I suppose, that late 19th century events "helped contribute" to the name Stuck sticking, so to speak, but I'd like to see a source for something like that. That's all, just wanted to explain my edits and ask if anyone knows of a more definitive source about the origin of the name Stuck. Thanks! Pfly (talk) 00:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, having found yet another source saying the name is of Indian origin I'm going to go with that and remove the claim of it coming from the village of Stuck. Here is the webpage that says it comes from the village: http://www.wrvmuseum.org/journal/journal_0403.htm Pfly (talk) 03:06, 1 June 2009 (UTC)