Page:Oregon Geographic Names, third edition.djvu/251

 is now served by Birkenfeld post office. On February 14, 1917, another post office, this time called Fish Hawk in two words, was established in the east part of Clatsop County. Florence M. Bennett was the postmaster but her tenure was short. The office was ordered discontinued September 22, 1917. This office was doubtless on a short section of Fishhawk Creek that loops into eastern Clatsop County.

FISHTRAP CREEK, Coos County. This is a tributary of Coquille River between Coquille and Myrtle Point. It was named because Indians had many traps for catching salmon here in pioneer days.

Fisks, Grant County. According to R. R. McHaley in a letter published in the Canyon City Eagle, March 7, 1947, Fisks was about a half mile north of the present site of Austin. The place was named for D. Walter Fisk, who owned a station there. Fisks post office was established November 29, 1905, with Sarah P. Cecil first and only postmaster. The office was closed July 14, 1906, with mail to Austin.

FIVEMILE CREEK, Coos County. Fivemile Creek is a little south of Cape Arago and flows into Pacific Ocean. The stream was named during the Coos County gold rush of 1853-55 because it was thought to be about five miles north of the mining town of Randolph on Whisky Run. The distance is in fact about four miles, but it doubtless seemed more to the tired gold seekers.

FIVEMILE CREEK, Douglas County. This creek flows into Tahkenitch Lake. It was so named because it is about five miles long.

FIVEMILE CREEK, Wasco County. This stream was so named because the pioneer road from The Dalles into central Oregon crossed it about five miles from town. Fivemile Creek and Eightmile Creek join, and about a mile and a half from the junction the combined stream, Eightmile Creek, flows into Fifteenmile Creek. For information about the names of this group of streams see under FIFTEENMILE CREEK.

FIVEMILE POINT, Coos County. This point was named by George Davidson of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey because it was thought to be about five miles south of Cape Arago. It was suggested to navi. gators as a range point from Cape Arago. See Coast Pilot for 1889.

FIVEMILE Rapids, Wasco County. These great rapids of the Columbia River were named by U. S. Engineers because of their distance east from the boat landing at The Dalles. They form a part of The Dalles of the Columbia, and were formerly known as the Long Narrows, The Dalles and The Great Dalles. See under THE DALLES in this book and article in OHQ, March, 1926, page 115. Part of Fivemile Rapids is in the state of Washington.

Flag ISLAND, Multnomah County. This little island is on the south side of the Columbia River about midway between Troutdale and Corbett station, just upstream from Gary Island. It has been named Flag Island by USBGN because it was in this vicinity that Lieutenant W. R. Broughton of the Royal Navy raised the British flag on October 30, 1792. The name was suggested by J. Neilson Barry of Portland, in 1929.

FLAGG, Lane County. Flagg is a station west of Eugene on the Southern Pacific Company line to Coos Bay. It was named for L. Randolph Flagg, who was a member of the contracting firm that built the railroad.

FLAGSTONE Rock, Douglas County. In 1939 field officers of the Forest