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 was dropped and the name has become Croisan. The Croisan family tradition says the name originally meant "growing," the French for which would be Croissant. Croissant is also the French for "crescent."

. Crook County was created October 24, 1882, from a part of Wasco County after Lake County had been taken off on the south. (Special Laws of 1882, page 178). For many years it was one of the large counties of central Oregon, but is now diminished in size as the result of the creation of Deschutes and Jefferson Counties. It has an area of 2934 square miles, according to the U. S. Bureau of the Census. Prineville is its county seat.

Crook County was named for George Crook, major-general in the U. S. Army, who was born near Dayton, Ohio, September 8, 1829; died at Chicago March 21, 1890. He graduated from West Point in 1852. Prior to the Civil War he served in the west, and was wounded in 1857 in the Pit River country. He made a brilliant record in the Civil War, and afterwards in Indian wars of the west. See Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume II, page 184 and volume V, pages 223-25.

, Curry County. This point is in approximate latitude 42° 15’, and is within 20 miles of the Oregon-California boundary line. Crook Point is moderately low, but terminates seaward in a rocky knoll 160 feet high, with lower ground immediately back of it.

, Klamath County. This is a stream near Klamath Agency, tributary to Wood River. It bears a descriptive name. The Klamath Indian name is Yanaldi Koke, literally, "Stream bordered by the Yanaldi Ridge." Koke is the Klamath word for stream. For additional information see under.

, Linn County. This stream is in the extreme north part of the county and is intermittent in character and the waters from it eventually find their