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Baty BUTTE, Clackamas County. Baty Butte is near the headwaters of a branch of Molalla River. It was named for Andrew Jackson Baty. He was a farmer who lived on Dickey Prairie, about five miles southeast of Molalla. He was a pioneer settler in this locality, and spent much of his time hunting in the Cascade Range. This mountain was named for him, probably by the U. S. Geological Survey party which prepared the maps accompanying Professional Paper Number 9, Forest Conditions in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Washington, 1903. The mountain was at one time known as Whitespot.

BAXTER CREEK, Tillamook County. This stream was named for William T. Baxter, a pioneer of Oregon, who settled in Tillamook County about 1871. The stream is tributary to Kilchis River. Bay City, Tillamook County. For many years that part of Tillamook County around Bay City has been known as "down the bay," and when the county was first organized, the voting precinct for that section was called Bay Precinct. The town was established in 1888 and named by Winfield S. Cone. It is said that Cone came from Bay City, Michigan, and that he thus had a double reason for naming Bay City, Oregon, as he did. The post office at Bay City was established June 17, 1889, with Onslow Young first postmaster. Bay View, Lincoln County. Bay View is on the northeast part of Alsea Bay. The post office was established about 1901, and the name was chosen by Daniel M. Oakland, the first postmaster, because of the view of Alsea Bay that could be had from where the office then stood. In 1941 the post office was listed in one word, Bayview, but maps use two words.

BAYOCEAN, Tillamook County. This place is on the long neck of land lying between Tillamook Bay and Pacific Ocean. It was named in 1907 by the Potter-Chapin Realty Company of Portland, which established it as a summer resort, and named it because of its proximity to the two features mentioned. Bayocean post office was established in February, 1909, by change of name from Barnegat. See under that heading. Bays. The important bays and harbors of the Pacific Ocean in Oregon from north to south, are: Columbia River, Nehalem River, Tillamook Bay, Netarts Bay, Nestucca Bay, Siletz Bay, Yaquina Bay, Alsea Bay, Siuslaw River, Umpqua River, Coos Bay, Coquille River, Port Orford and Chetco Cove. It is an interesting fact that while most of the capes and headlands of Oregon were discovered and named before Lewis and Clark arrived, few of the harbors had been seen by white men up to that time. On August 17, 1775, Captain Bruno Heceta anchored off the mouth of the Columbia River, the entrance to which he gave the name of La Asuncion, apparently because of the celebration of the Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, or the Assumption, on August 15. Although the currents led him to believe he was near a river, he did not make the entrance, and thus lost the honor of discovering the Columbia. He named the north cape of the entrance Cabo San Roque and the south Cabo Frondoso, now Point Adams. John Meares was the next explorer to make any important mention of Oregon bays and harbors. For details of Meares' voyage off the Oregon coast see the information under CAPE

MEARES. Meares passed the mouth of the Columbia on July 6, 1788, and while he recognized the fact that he was off a bay, he failed to identify. the place as the mouth of a river. By nightfall of the same day he discovered and named Quicksand Bay, and while he says that the bay had