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Company for Kinzua, Warren County, Pennsylvania, a community on Allegheny River. At the time, it was said that Kinzua meant a place of many fishes. On October 16, 1930, the postmaster at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, told the compiler that highway signs in that community said Kinzua was an Indian name meaning waters of many and big fish. However, an inquiry to an old Indian in the vicinity brought the information that he believed that the word actually meant that there were always fish for the spear rather than for other methods of catching.

KIRBY CREEK, Baker County. Kirby Creek, in Eagle Valley, was originally called Little Eagle Creek, because it was a separate channel of Eagle Creek. This caused confusion with another Little Eagle Creek, tributary to the main stream, about eight miles further north. Local residents recommended that the creek in Eagle Valley be called Kirby, for a local resident, which was done by the USBGN.

KIRK, Klamath County. Kirk is the name of the Indian family upon whose allotment the community is situated. The name was first chosen by the Southern Pacific Company for a station name at a point that was for several years the end of the line north of Klamath Falls. The post office was established in 1920, with the name Kirkford; why the additional syllable no one seems to know, although it is true there is a ford in Williamson River nearby. The scheme of different names for station and for post office has always been unsatisfactory, and it was so in this case, and in 1925 the postal authorities changed the office name to Kirk to agree with the station name.

KIRKLAND SPRING, Wallowa County. This spring in section 13, township 4 north, range 45 east, was named for Wright Kirkland, a pioneer stockman of the locality.

KISHWALKS, Wasco County. Kishwalks is a locality on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, north of the agency. It bears the name of an old Indian, very lame, who lived there. It is possible that the word in some way referred to his infirmity and that it was a mixture of the Wasco and English languages, but in January, 1944, Indians at the agency were not definite about the origin. Kist, Columbia County. Kist post office was in the southwest part of the county near Nehalem River, several miles upstream from the mouth of Clear Creek. The office, which was established January 21, 1899, is said to have been named for a local homesteader who had the misfortune of being frozen to death a short time before the office was established. Kist post office was discontinued May 31, 1912, and the business was turned over to Timber.

KITSON HOT SPRINGS, Lane County. Dave Kitson of Springfield, a left-handed English carpenter, took up these springs many years ago and established a summer resort there. The springs and Kitson Ridge just to the north bear his name.

KITTREDGE LAKE, Multnomah County. This is the correct name of the small overflow lake on the west banks of the Willamette River east of Oilton, not Kittridge. It was named for George Kittredge, a pioneer settler who was born in Vermont in 1808. Kiwa BUTTE, Deschutes County. This butte southwest of Bend was named by the Forest Service with the Chinook jargon word for crooked or bent. The name is descriptive.

KLAK BUTTE, Deschutes County. This butte southwest of Bend,