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 1805. The name is often used as synonymous with the family name. Hale, in Ethnology and Philology (1846), page 221, gives the name as Kwook-woos and Kaus. Parrish, in Indian affairs Report (1855), page 495, gives Co-ose. In addition to Coos County, the name is also used for Coos Bay, Coos River and Coos Head. Interesting details of the early history of southwestern Oregon may be had in Orvil Dodge's Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, published in Salem in 1898.

, Coos County. Cooston is on the east shore of Coos Bay and the origin of the name is the same as that of Coos Cunty. Cooston post office was established May 13, 1908, and the first postmaster was William E. Homme.

, Jackson and Klamath Counties. Copeland Creek was named for Hiram Copeland of Fort Klamath. The stream rises west of Crater Lake and flows into Rogue River.

, Coos County. This name is applied to a city, a point and a river in Coos County, south of Coos Bay. Coquille is a word of doubtful origin, probably an Indian variation of the French coquille ("shell"). Scoquel appears in The Oregonian, January 7, 1854, in an advertisement of the Coose Bay Company. The name is there said to be Indian for "eel." Coquette appears in a map of John B. Preston, surveyor-general of Oregon (1851), probably intended for Coquelle. It appears Coquille in a map of J. W. Trutch (1856). Canadian-French fur hunters may have left the name among the Indians. See Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume XIX, pages 73-74, by Leslie M. Scott, and also The Oregonian for September 3, 1907, where Harvey W. Scott makes some comments on the pronunciation of the name.

, Multnomah County. This post office and station on the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company line, as well as Corbett Heights upon the Co-