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KILBRIDE, Grant County. Kilbride was a post office near Middle Fork John Day River about six or eight miles northwest of and down. stream from Galena. The office was 'established March 22, 1901, with Margaret Hamilton first of four postmasters. It was discontinued May 31, 1908, with mail to Susanville. Margaret Hamilton was Mrs. Robert Hamilton. Mrs. Hamilton named the office for Kilbride, Scotland, which was at or near the place of her birth. Kilchis POINT, Tillamook County. Kilchis Point is on the east shore of Tillamook Bay, and Kilchis River is close by. These features were named for Kilchis, a chief of the Indians of the Tillamook Bay region. He was friendly to the whites. Kilchis post office was established about 1872 with W. D. Stillwell first postmaster. The office was closed about 1890, because the community of Bay City had been established nearby, with a post office, and there was no longer a need for an office at Kilchis. The locality of Kilchis Point was called Jawbone in pioneer days, it is said, because a sawmill enterprise was built on "jawbone" when no cash was available.

KILLAM CREEK, Tillamook County. Killam Creek is a pleasing stream that finds its way into Tillamook River southeast of the town of Tillamook. It bears the name of Leonard Killam who took up a claim in 1879, his land bordering on the stream. Various other spellings such as Kilham, Killum and Killiam are wrong according to county authorities.

KILLAMACUE CREEK, Baker County. This stream drains Killamacue Lake and flows into Rock Creek. Old maps show a variety of spellings, but the USBGN has adopted this as best representing the pronunciation of the name. The compiler has been unable to learn the meaning of the name. KillGAVER, Multnomah County. Killgaver post office was in operation from August 5, 1886, to October 9, 1899, with John Howard the only postmaster. This office was in the Howard home on the Section Line road in the vicinity of what is now Southeast 112th Avenue. In July, 1947, the compiler was informed that the Howards were either born in Ireland or were of Irish descent and named the Oregon post office for a place in the Emerald Isle. Modern atlases do not show such a place in Ireland, but Killgaver may have been used as an Irish place name in the early '80s. Kilts, Jefferson County. Kilts post office was named for Jesse Kilts, an early resident of the place and once postmaster. The office has been discontinued at times. While Kilts is the post office name, the local residents call the locality Donnybrook. An earlier name was Axhandle, but Donnybrook was adopted as the result of a gathering in Calf Gulch at which there was considerable disorder and some blood was shed. An editorial in the Bend Bulletin, April 20, 1943, says that Kilts was a homesteader and relatively a newcomer. The editorial contains the following paragraph: "But old timers have long resented a community name which honors a newcomer, a member of the homesteading fraternity whom elderly stockmen referred to as 'scissorbills.' To Dan Crowley, one of the few old time survivors of the olden days, Kilts is still Donnybrook. And if you stop in Ashwood on your way east to the Horse Heaven mines to ask about the country beyond Ash butte and the Red Jacket mine, folks of the Trout Creek village will tell you that the community up on the highlands is known as Donnybrook. Only