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 way into the Willamette River about eight miles north of Albany. This stream was named for John T. Crooks, who took up a donation land claim nearby.

, Malheur County. This post office and creek nearby were named for James Crowley, who settled there and established a ranch about July, 1874.

, Polk County. This station is on the Southern Pacific Company line between Holmes Gap and Rickreall, and was named for Solomon K. Crowley, an early resident of the neighborhood.

, Klamath County. This name was originally applied to a fine clear stream flowing into Upper Klamath Lake near Pelican Bay. In 1925, Postmaster S. A. Brown reports that he thinks the stream was named in 1891 by G. W. Maylone and John Young. Crystal, as the name of the office was proposed by the first postmaster, D. G. Brown, in 1892, when it was established through his efforts.

, Harney Creek. This stream rises on the northwestern slopes of Steens Mountain, and enters Kiger Creek, a tributary of Donner und Blitzen River. The name is apparently derived from Cucamonga Creek, San Bernardino County, California, but how the Oregon stream got the name the writer has been unable to ascertain. Cucamonga is an Indian name and according to Mrs. Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, in her book Spanish and Indian Place Names of California, was originally applied to a native village about 42 miles east of Los Angeles, and later to a land grant.

, Clatsop County. A lake on Clatsop Plains, about two miles long, fed by small streams. The present outlet is through a ditch into Skipanon River. Many years ago this lake drained through Necoxie Creek, which first flowed northward and then turned south and emptied into the estuary of Necanicum River. Shifting sands damned that part of Necoxie Creek nearest the