Page:Oregon Geographic Names, third edition.djvu/627



1885. The compiler does not know if the first part of Overton's name was a military title, or whether it was his veritable given name. Tor MOUNTAIN, Deschutes County. Tot Mountain is not a mountain at all, but a butte or point on the south slope of Bachelor Butte. It is named with the Chinook jargon word for uncle. The word was applied by the Forest Service because it was necessary to have a name for the butte for convenience in fire fighting. A little to the south is Kwolh Butte, and kwohl is the Chinook jargon word for aunt. These two names were doubtless selected because of Bachelor Butte, Three Sisters, The Husband and The Wife in the same general locality. Tower MOUNTAIN, Umatilla County. Tower Mountain is in section 12, township 6 south, range 34 east, and was formerly known as Lookout Mountain. There is another Lookout Mountain 66 miles northeast, and on June 2, 1925, the USBGN changed the name of the mountain here considered to Tower Mountain because that was the name used by the USC&GS for a triangulation station on the summit. This was done to avoid confusion with the other Lookout Mountain. The triangulation station is about a quarter of a mile east of the Forest Service lookout.

TOWNSEND, Marion County. This station was named for a pioneer family of the vicinity. Trail, Jackson County. Trail is a post office on Rogue River at the mouth of Trail Creek. Trail Creek is so known because an Indian trail from Rogue River to Umpqua River traversed its banks, forming a short cut between the military road and Roseburg in pioneer days. Will G. Steel is authority for the statement that the earlier name of Trail Creek was Stewart Creek, but it does not now go by that name.

TRAIL CREEK, Wallowa County. Trail Creek flows into Camp Creek west of Imnaha. J. H. Horner told the compiler that it was named for an important Indian trail extending west from Imnaha River to camps on Camp Creek. The Indian name for the creek and trail is Wa-lim-isk-kit, with the accent on the second syllable.

TRAILFORK, Gilliam County. Trailfork is a descriptive name for a locality situated about ten or twelve miles southeast of Condon. The name came into use in pioneer days, but the post office was not established until July 1, 1902, with Nancy M. Mattingly first postmaster. This office was discontinued January 31, 1916. Government maps use the style Trail Fork, and there is a Trail Fork Canyon shown on the map of the Condon quadrangle. Trapp CREEK, Lincoln County. Trapp Creek in the Coast Range flows into Yaquina River from the south in the extreme southwest corner of township 10 south, range 9 west, at a point a little over a mile west of Chitwood. The stream was named for a well-known family of pioneer settlers of the vicinity. The spelling Trap is wrong.

TRASK RIVER, Tillamook County. Elbridge Trask, a native of Massachusetts, first came to Oregon in Wyeth's brig May Dacre in 1834, and in the fall of 1835 he went to the Rocky Mountains to trap and hunt. He returned to Oregon in 1842 and settled on Clatsop Plains probably in 1843. Silas B. Smith says Trask worked on Hunt's Mill, pioneer sawmill of Clatsop County, built at Hunts Mill Point in the winter of 1843-44. He moved from Clatsop Plains to Tillamook