This site was called Tuushi, meaning "baking salmon on sticks over coals", a name based on a coyote myth.

[5][6] Settlers from the east came to the valley in the early 1850s, but shortly left due to conflicts with the Native people.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), all of it land.

[9] As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 396 people, 135 households, and 112 families residing in the CDP.

15.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.