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name as though spelled Kar. Kerr Valley is just southeast of Kerr Notch.

KERRY, Columbia County. Kerry is at the junction of what was the Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. It was named for A. S. Kerry, who started the community in 1912, when he was interested in the development of the first named railroad, extending it into his extensive timber holdings in the Nehalem Valley. Kerry was for many years a prominent business man of Portland and Seattle. He died at Seattle on April 27, 1939. The Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad has been dismantled, and Kerry is no longer a railroad station, but it is a community on the Columbia River Highway.

KETCHKETCH BUTTE, Deschutes County. This butte is southwest of Crane Prairie. The name comes from the Klamath Indian word ketchkitchli, meaning rough. A derivative of the same word is ketchkatch, the rough-furred little gray fox. The Forest Service applied the name because of its distinctive sound and with the desire of perpetuating Indian words.

KETTLE CREEK, Jackson County. Kettle Creek is in the north part of the county and fows south to join Sugarpine Creek on the north line of township 32 south, range 1 east. In May, 1946, Howard L. Ash of Trail, an old-timer in that part of Oregon, wrote the compiler that the stream was named because Andy Pool and Sam Gray found a kettle on its banks in 1905. They were on a hunting trip. This old iron kettle held a few lumps of what appeared to be coal, and the hunters turned prospectors. They searched the stream and also the rock point just to the west, but found no coal. This rock point is now called Kettle Rock. Later what appeared to be coal was found a few miles to the northwest, but the compiler has been told that it is just a black rock. See under

COALMINE CREEK.

KETTLE CREEK, Wallowa County. According to J. H. Horner of Enterprise this stream was named in 1883 because a broken camp kettle lay in the creek. A packhorse belonging to Enoch G. Vaughan and David M. Dennis bucked his pack off and jammed the kettle beyond use. The kettle lay in the water for many years. The creek flows into Imnaha River in section 10, township 2 north, range 48 east.

KIGER CREEK, Harney County. The name of this stream is frequently misspelled Kieger and Keiger. It was named for the Kiger family, well-known pioneers near Malheur Lake. For information about the Kiger family, see under KIGER ISLAND, also OHQ, volume

XXXII, page 125, and Lockley article on editorial page of the Oregon Journal, June 25, 1927.

KIGER ISLAND, Benton County. Kiger Island is southeast of Corvallis between the main channel of the Willamette River and the Booneville Channel. It was named for Reuben C. Kiger, a pioneer resident of Benton County. He was born in 1828 and died in 1907. In 1874 the Kiger family moved to Harney County and settled near Steens Mountain, but Kiger moved back to western Oregon in 1878 because of Indian troubles. Kiger Creek in Harney County was named by his wife Minerva J. (Morgan) Kiger, better known as Dolly Kiger. She also named McCoy Creek and Cucamonga Creek in the Steens Mountain country. She was born July 28, 1850, and was married to Reuben C. Kiger on November 18, 1866. She died at Corvallis on January 8, 1928. quently missprown pioneers meder Kiger Ist