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LAKE, Lake County. Lake post office was formerly near Christmas Lake, about four miles from its present location. Christmas Lake as a name for the office was not acceptable to the authorities. A name of one word was wanted, so Christmas was dropped. Since the office was moved, the name Lake is not entirely suitable. The office was established in 1906.

LAKE ABERT, Lake County. Lake Abert is one of the large lakes of Oregon with a normal area of about 60 square miles. It is fed principally by the outlets of Chewaucan Marsh and by Crooked Creek. The water is highly impregnated with sodium carbonates and other salts. The elevation of high water is about 4250 feet, and the lowest part of the bed is about 4244 feet, according to surveys of the Oregon State Highway Commission. John Work and his brigade of 1832-33 reached the north end of this lake on October 16, 1832, and called it Salt Lake. See California Historical Society Quarterly, September, 1943, page 204. Work does not say so, but his diary implies that this was not a new discovery and that the trappers had been there before. Arrowsmith's map of North America, corrected to 1832-33, shows this Salt Lake with reasonable accuracy. The lake was visited on December 20, 1843, by then Captain John C. Fremont, and named for his chief, Colonel J. J. Abert of the U. S. Topographical Engineers. The lake was reported entirely dry in 1924, but has contained water since that year. Very complete descriptions of the lake and its surroundings including the Abert Rim, the imposing fault scarp on the eastern shore, are in USGS Water-Supply Papers 220 and 363. Lake CHETLO, Lane County. Lake Chetlo is northwest of Waldo Lake. Chetlo is a Chinook jargon word meaning oyster. It was applied to this lake because of its shape.

LAKE COUNTY. Lake County was created October 24, 1874, by the state legislature, and received its name because of the number of large lakes within or partly within its borders, including the Klamath lakes, Lake Abert, Summer Lake, Goose Lake, Silver Lake and the lakes of the Warner Valley. The territory comprising Lake County was taken from Wasco and Jackson counties. Lake County in 1940 had a land area of 8270 square miles, according to the Bureau of the Census. Klamath County was formed from the west part of Lake County in 1882, and the Klamath lakes are not now in Lake County. In 1876 there was a lively squabble about the selection of a county seat for Lake County. For details, see under BULLARD CREEK.

LAKE EWAUNA, Klamath County. This is an enlargement or elbow in the outlet of Upper Klamath Lake. The connection to the north from Upper Klamath Lake is Link River. The outlet of Lake Ewauna is Klamath River. The name of the lake is from the Klamath Indian luauna, a condensed form of Yulalona, the name of a place below the falls of Link River.

LAKE Kiwa, Lane County. Lake Kiwa is north of Waldo Lake. The name is from the Chinook jargon word meaning crooked, and was applied to this lake because it was elbow shaped. The word is said to have come originally from the Wasco Indian language.

LAKE LABISH, Marion County. This is a marshy area east of Brooks and Chemawa, now almost completely drained and in cultivation. Lake Labish ditch, which flows into Little Pudding River, is practically all that is left of the original lake. The lake was named by early settlers on