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WALL CREEK, Grant County. Wall Creek is a tributary of North Fork John Day River. Little Wall Creek rises in Morrow County and flows into Wall Creek. J. L. Cochran, an early resident in the John Day country, informs the compiler that the stream was named because of the rimrocks or walls along its banks.

WALL CREEK, Grant County. This Wall Creek is south of Canyon City and flows into Canyon Creek. Patsy Daly of Prairie City informs the compiler that it was named for a local resident. WallA WALLA RIVER, Umatilla County. The sources of Walla Walla River lie in Oregon. South Fork Walla Walla River is the main tributary, and this stream rises in the extreme northwest corner of Wallowa County. The north and south forks join about seven miles southeast of Milton, and the stream flows into Washington north of Milton, after having been divided into several channels and ditches, one branch being known as Little Walla Walla River. "In several languages walla means running water, and reduplication of a word diminutizes it; so Wallawalla is the small rapid river." (Coues in History of the Expedition of Lewis and Clark, page 969.) According to Myron Eells, in The American Anthropologist, January, 1892, page 34, the word is Nez Perce and Cayuse, the root of which is walatse, which means running, hence running water. Wallula is probably an anglicized corruption of Walla Walla. Lewis and Clark use the name Wallow Wallow, with several variations, and other early travelers use different spellings. The pronunciation, however, is more or less the same. See OGN, 1928 edition, page 373. Old Fort Walla Walla (Fort Nez Perce), at the mouth of Walla Walla River, in Washington, was established in 1818 by the North West Company, and was abandoned in 1855. The city of Walla Walla, 33 miles east, came into importance in 1860-61, amid placer gold mining activities of Clearwater, Salmon, upper Columbia, Owyhee and Boise rivers. It was first settled upon in 1855. Whitman's mission, at Wai-il-at-pu, was six miles west of the city of Walla Walla.

WALLACE, Clackamas County. Wallace is a station on the Oregon Electric Railway about two miles south of Wilsonville, named for Mrs. Guy W. Talbot, of Portland, whose maiden name was Wallace.

WALLACE, Lane County. Wallace post office and what there was of a community were named for William Wallace Shortridge. The place was on Coast Fork Willamette River about ten or a dozen miles south of Cottage Grove, in township 22 south, range 3 west. The post office was established December 8, 1885, with Shortridge postmaster, and it continued in service until March 1, 1898. Shortridge had previously been postmaster at Ida, at or near the same place as Wallace. Shortridge was born in Iowa. He came to Oregon in 1852 and to Lane County in 1853.

WALLACE Hill, Polk County, Wallace Hill is a prominent landmark in the eastern part of the Eola Hills about three miles northwest of Salem. It has an elevation of about 100 feet and the highway between Salem and Dayton skirts its eastern shoulder. It was named for R. S. Wallace who planted nearby one of the largest orchards in Polk County.

WALLACE ISLAND, Columbia County. This is an island in the Columbia River north of Clatskanie. It is said to bear the name of an early settler who either lived thereon, or owned part of it. The compiler has been unable to get reliable information about the matter.