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 had a station named Sprague in Klamath County, but in 1926 changed the name to Calimus to avoid duplication. The name Calimus was taken from Calimus Butte.

, Klamath County. This is an important landmark near the center of the Klamath Indian Reservation and is used as a lookout station. Captain 0. C. Applegate, authority on the Klamath country, said the origin of the name was obscure. One Klamath Indian told him it meant Flat Butte.

, Klamath County. Calor is a station on the Southern Pacific Company Cascade Line just north of the Oregon-California state line. The name is synthetic and was made up from parts of the names of the two states. There are many of these combination names in the United States..

, Douglas County. Calvert post office was established May 3, 1892, with Mrs. John (Laura V.) Applegate first and only postmaster. The office was closed September 5, 1894, and the business turned over to Louis post office. Calvert was about four miles east of Yoncalla in Scott Valley on what had been the R. M. Kelly donation land claim. Mrs. Applegate planned to name the office Scott Valley, but postal authorities objected to a name with two words and also because it was so nearly the same as Scottsburg in the same county. It was then planned to name the office Kelly, but this was unacceptable to the authorities because of duplication. At length Calvert was selected. It is reported that Calvert was a family name in the Applegate clan.

, Douglas County. The word Camas is used to describe geographic features in many parts of Oregon, including Camas Valley in Douglas County, Camas Swale in Lane County, Camas Swale in Douglas County, Camas Creek in Umatilla County, and others. The name is taken from that of a favorite food of the western Indians, the Camassia bulb, a plant related to the scilla. The word was derived from the Nootka Indian word Chamass, meaning "fruit" or "sweet." It was adopted into the Chinook jargon as camas, kamass, lacmass, and lakamass. The locality of Camas Valley was a place where the Indians gathered supplies of the sweetish bulbs of the blue-flowered "Lakamass."

, Deschutes County. On December 4, 1942, it was announced by the War Department that an army engineer replacement and training center would be named Camp Abbot, in honor of Brigadier-General Henry Larcom Abbot. Abbot's distinguished career is described in this volume under the heading, On September 2, 1835, in command of a detached party engaged on one of the projects of the Pacific Railroad Surveys, he camped on the site of the engineer center. Camp Abbot was dedicated on September 2, 1943, and was in active service for about a year.

, Benton and Polk Counties. Henry Rodney Adair was a scion of a prominent Oregon pioneer family and was a native of Astoria. He was graduated from West Point and became a lieutenant of cavalry in the regular army. He was killed at Carrizal, Mexico, about 90 miles south of El Paso, June 21, 1916, when Mexican soldiers made a surprise attack on a small detachment of American troops. Lieutenant Adair conducted a spirited defense but the few troopers in his immediate vicinity were greatly outnumbered and many were killed. Camp Adair, on the west side of the Willamette Valley north of Corvallis, contains