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Fin Roberts CREEK, Lane County. This is a tributary of Salt Creek east of Oakridge. It was named for one Fin Roberts, who it is said, resembled the creek in that he was always dry.

FINDLEY BUTTES, Wallowa County. The Findley Buttes are in the Wallowa Valley between Enterprise and Imnaha. They are named for Florence Findley who took up a homestead there in the '80s. These buttes are sometimes known as Brumback Buttes for N. W. Brumback, a nearby settler, but Findley Buttes is the older name and in the opinion of the writer, the correct one. Florence Findley married J. J. Johnson, an old settler. There was an early day post office near the Findley Buttes called Joy, because nearby settlers were so happy to get mail service.

FINDLEY CREEK, Wallowa County. Findley Creek flows west into Imnaha River near Imnaha. It was named for the Findley family. See under FINDLEY BUTTES.

FINGERBOARD GULCH, Wallowa County. This gulch and Fingerboard Saddle where it heads are in the southeast part of township 3 north, range 49 east. The gulch drains into Cow Creek, and it is named for a wooden fingerboard that was nailed to a tree at the beginning of the trail up the stream. This trail was used to go eastward to the James Tryon place in the early '80s, according to J. H. Horner of Enterprise.

FINGERBOARD PRAIRIE, Lane County. This prairie owes its name to the fact that for many years there was a signboard nearby cut in the shape of a pointing finger. Fingerboard Prairie is about six miles northeast of Belknap Springs.

FINLEY, Wallowa County. Finley post office was established September 11, 1913, with Virgil T. Floch postmaster, but the office was short lived and was closed November 30, 1914, at which time John E. Jackson was postmaster. The office was in section 36, township 1 north, range 46 east, about 15 miles northeast of Enterprise. It was intended that the office should be named for the Findley Buttes nearby but somewhere along the line the letter "d" was dropped, presumably in error. Finn Rock, Lane County. Finn Rock is a peculiar formation on McKenzie River not far from the mouth of Finn Creek. The rock resembles a shark's fin but was not named on that account but instead for Benjamin F. Finn, an early settler. Finn Creek was named for the same reason.

FINNEY AND EGAŃ Lake, Marion County. Old plats show James Finney and W. H. Egan as nearby landowners, and the lake was apparently named for them. It is southwest of Waconda.

FINZER, Marion County. Finzer is about five miles southwest of Salem and is a station on the Oregon Electric Railway. It was named for William E. Finzer, at one time adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard. The state had a rifle range at this station, which was named Finzer on that account. Fir, Hood River County. Information about Fir post office is not contained in the available records of Hood River County, yet the office is known to have been in service about 1915. It was in section 6, township 1 north, range 11 east, approximately four miles southeast of Odell near Neal Creek, and was named for the fir forests in the locality. Fir, Washington County. Fir was the name of a post office in the valley of Gales Creek not far south from the 1945 location of the Glenwood office. In other words it was about four miles northwest of the town