Siikalatva

The upper Siikajoki valley belongs to the inland country of northern Ostrobothnia. Its inhabitants originally belonged to the parish of Salo on the coast, founded in the fourteenth century. A chapel was established at Pulkkila in 1671, and the Siikajoki parish was separated from Salo in 1689. In the eighteenth century, the people of Pulkkila and Piippola each pressed for a church; both villages gained one around 1770.