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 water swimming pool nearby and this suggested a title for the post office. Swim is near Mount Hood Loop Highway. Swiss SPRING, Klamath County. Swiss Spring is in section 29, township 27 south, range 7 east. It was at one time called Coyote Spring, but due to duplication with another Coyote Spring in the neighborhood, the Forest Service asked to have the name changed to Swiss Spring in compliment to a Swiss who was associated with the locality. The style Swiss Spring was adopted by the USBGN in 1940.

SWISSHOME, Lane County. The name Swisshome originated because of the fact that a Swiss family lived about a mile west of the present site of the post office. The locality where this family lived was called Swisshome and when the post office was established sometime after 1900 the name was transferred to the new locality.

SWITCHBACK FALLS, Hood River County. These falls were named May 6, 1925, by the USBGN because the title suggested was unusually descriptive. They are near where the Mount Hood Loop Highway crosses Iron Creek, southeast of Mount Hood.

SWITZLER LAKE, Multnomah County. This is a slough lake on the south shore of the Columbia River near Portland. It was named for John Switzler, who brought his family to Oregon, from Missouri, in 1845, and on September 30, 1846, settled on the south side of the Columbia, opposite Vancouver, and north of Woodlawn, which is a part of the city of Portland. This was the old landing of the Vancouver ferry. See map of W. W. Chapman, surveyor-general of Oregon, dated September 20, 1860, Eugene, Oregon, in the surveyor-general's office at Portland, Oregon. Switzler was born in Virginia and served in the War of 1812. He died in 1856. See Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume II, page 289, and land office certificate 137. Slough post office was established in the vicinity of Switzler Lake November 25, 1850, with John Switzler postmaster. The office was discontinued January 6, 1852.

SYCAMORE, Multnomah County. Sycamore is a locality on Johnson Creek about three miles east of Lents, near the south border of the county. A story about George Flinn, in Fred Lockley's column of the Oregon Journal, July 16, 1927, tells of the origin of the name. Sycamore State is a name used in referring to West Virginia. The Flinn family came to Oregon about 1844 from West Virginia and settled at the pres. ent site of Sycamore. Nelson A. Flinn, the head of the family, named the locality Sycamore. A post office with that name was established May 29, 1889, with Flinn first postmaster. This office was closed March 23, 1901. Some of the family later moved to the vicinity of Cherryville east of Sandy.

SYCAN Marsh, Klamath and Lake counties. Sycan Marsh gets its name from the Klamath Indian words saiga and keni, literally, the level, grassy place. The marsh covers a considerable area in the northeast part of the Klamath Indian Reservation, and its outlet is Sycan River, a tributary of Sprague River. The best information about Sycan Marsh may be found in the cooperative report issued by the state engineer entitled Silver Lake Project. There are many spellings of the name, but the USBGN has officially adopted Sycan. It seems probable that the name Thompson Valley was at one time applied by white people to Sycan Marsh as well as to what is now known as Thompson Valley, to the north. The name Sycan has become applied to Sycan