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 ForestForest in Orego and was rates that of Jeremiah J. Jack, a native of Tennessee, a pioneer of 1847, and an early settler near Butte Creek. For biography, see History of the Silverton Country, page 44. Bute Creek post office was established January 24, 1851, with Jack postmaster. The office was discontinued November 3, 1851. It was on the Marion County list. This office was reestablished in 1867 in Clackamas County with the name Butte Creek and in November, 1889, the name was changed to Marquam. For a time during the '70s the office may have been in Marion County, although the records are conflicting.

JACKSON COUNTY. The discovery of gold in southern Oregon in the early '50s made it desirable to provide a county government for that part of the state, and accordingly on January 12, 1852, Jackson County was created and named for Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States. As then constituted the county comprised all that part of Oregon west of the Cascade Range and between the south boundary of Umpqua County and the north boundary of California. The county has been reduced in size considerably since its original establishment. Large areas have been taken to form most of Curry and Josephine counties to the west. According to the Bureau of the Census the present area of the county is 2817 square miles.

JACKSON CREEK, Douglas County. This stream was for many years called South Fork Umpqua River, a name sufficiently cumbersome to call for a change. It was renamed by the USBGN for Clarence W. Jackson, who was killed by a truck in the state of Washington while in the employ of the Forest Service. He had formerly been a ranger on the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon.

JACKSON CREEK, Multnomah and Washington counties. This stream is a tributary of McKay Creek and is about eight miles north of Hillsboro. The falls of this stream are known as Jackson Falls. These features were named for John B. Jackson, a pioneer settler who took up a donation land claim nearby.

JACKSON Hill, Marion County. Jackson Hill is about eight miles south of Salem. For many years one of the main county highways went over this hill. When the Pacific Highway East was built south of Salem, a new route was followed which eliminated the bad grade over Jackson Hill. Jackson Hill is about one-half mile south of Sunnyside school. It was named for L. A. Jackson, a pioneer resident.

JACKSON LAKE, Wallowa County. Jackson Lake was named for J. H. Jackson, formerly a resident of Lostine, who first stocked it with trout. It is in the Wallowa Mountains about twenty miles south of Lostine, in the northwest quarter of section 2, township 4 south, range 43 east, and its waters drain into Lostine River.

JACKSONVILLE, Jackson County. The development of Jacksonville began with the placer gold discoveries there in 1851-52. Leslie M. Scott told the writer in 1927 that Jacksonville was named for Jackson Creek, upon which it is situated, and Jackson Creek was named for one of the men who discovered gold on its banks. For information about Jacksonville see the Oregonian, August 1, 1926, section 1, page 12. Jacksonville post office was established on February 18, 1854, with R. Dugan first postmaster. Sylvester H. Taylor was appointed postmaster on December 19, 1854.

JAMES, Clackamas County. James post office operated from Novem