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The rock got its name from Cape Falcon. For the origin of the name of the cape, see under CAPE FALCON. The rock is sometimes called Cape Falcon, but that form does not reflect the best usage, and is not the style used on the charts of the USC&GS. Fall CREEK, Deschutes County. Fall Creek heads in Green Lake east of South Sister, and flows south about four miles into Sparks Lake. It has a succession of falls and rapids, culminating in a fine drop of about 30 feet at a point about a half a mile north of Century drive. It gets its name from this fall, which is most attractive. Professor E. T. Hodge, in Mount Multnomah, pages 61 and 62, gives a good description of this stream and adjacent points of interest. Fall CREEK, Lane County. Fall Creek is a post office on the stream of the same name, which is tributary to Middle Fork Willamette River. Fall Creek post office is near the junction of Little Fall Creek and the main stream. The writer is told that many years ago the community was called Tay for the River Tay in Scotland, apparently by the Stuarts and other Scotch settlers in the neighborhood. James Stuart located there as early as 1853. Postal authorities inform the compiler that Tay post office was established August 9, 1880, with A. R. Randall first postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Fall Creek on August 3, 1885, apparently at the request of T. C. Randall, then postmaster. The stream has been known in the past as Big Fall Creek in contradistinction to Little Fall Creek, a tributary, but federal mapping agencies nearly always drop the word Big from pairs of names of this sort, and consider the larger stream the main stem, with Little applied to the tributary. Fall RIVER, Deschutes County. Fall River heads in giant springs, and after flowing through pine woods for some eight or ten miles joins Deschutes River from the west, north of Pringle Falls. About half way between the source of the river and its mouth, it descends a series of small falls and cascades with a total drop of about a hundred feet. It was from these falls that it received its name. Falls City, Polk County. This town was named for the falls in Little Luckiamute River, which are near the west edge of the community. The name was proposed at the meeting which was held to initiate proceedings for incorporation. This place was originally served from a post office called Syracuse, situated between Dallas and the present site of Falls City. Syracuse postoffice was established in February, 1885, with Frank K. Hubbard first postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Falls City in October, 1889, and the office was doubtless moved at that time. It is said that the name Falls City was suggested by a family that had previously lived in Falls City, Nebraska.

FALOMA, Multnomah County. This post office was north of Portland and served a community which was at one time known as Bridgeton. About 1921 the post office authorities were requested to establish an office there, but they objected to the name Bridgeton because of the duplication of other similar names in the United States. A meeting of local citizens was held and it was decided to ask to have the place named Faloma. This name was made up by using the initials of three original land owners in the neighborhood, to-wit: Messrs. Force, Love and Moore.

FANDANGO CANYON, Lake County. This canyon east of Silver Lake is named with the Spanish word for dance. The compiler has been unable to learn why.