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- The Oregon Geographic Names Board (originally known as the Oregon Geographic Board) is responsible for recommending names for geographic features in the...11 KB (1,193 words) - 12:42, 30 April 2024
the Board on Geographical Names. "To this Board shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names. The decisions of the Board are...13 KB (1,328 words) - 22:06, 30 January 2024
cooperation with the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names. Data were collected in two phases...29 KB (3,565 words) - 08:50, 26 May 2024
Marys Peak (category Oregon geography stubs)months. On June 15, 2019, the Oregon Geographic Names Board unanimously endorsed a proposal to give Native American names to 10 unnamed creeks that flow...11 KB (1,132 words) - 21:42, 7 April 2024- Toketee Falls, Oregon)falls was officially named by a United States Board on Geographic Names decision in 1916, over alternate names Ireland Falls and Toketie Falls. Carved from...2 KB (293 words) - 11:04, 11 February 2024
record of a person named Bailey who was connected with the peak has been found. In 1992, the Oregon Geographic Names Board voted to name the mountain in...9 KB (925 words) - 02:26, 11 April 2024 - Ben Johnson Mountain (category Jackson County, Oregon geography stubs)the name Negro Ben was officially adopted in 1964. As of October 24th, 2020 the name has officially been changed by the Oregon Geographic Names Board to...3 KB (210 words) - 05:49, 3 February 2024
- Columbia County, Oregon. It is located adjacent to Deer Island. Goat Island was named as such by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1976. "Goat...2 KB (55 words) - 05:17, 1 December 2020
the southernmost area of Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name comes from the Siletz language and means...50 KB (5,270 words) - 16:31, 29 February 2024- most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words. Those derived from only two names are usually considered...54 KB (4,882 words) - 06:06, 25 January 2024
- Mount Halo (category Lane County, Oregon geography stubs)Mount Halo until the 1950s. In August 2022, the Oregon Geographic Names Board confirmed that the name of the mountain would be changed from Swastika Mountain...5 KB (341 words) - 17:21, 22 May 2023
meaning of the name Ouve a água, Oregon. Yet another account, endorsed as the "most plausible explanation" in the book Oregon Geographic Names, was advanced...197 KB (16,731 words) - 08:20, 27 June 2024
office with that name was established in 1941 that ran intermittently until 1965. In 1961, the United States Board on Geographic Names ruled to return...5 KB (313 words) - 05:58, 8 January 2024- Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0875952772...5 KB (233 words) - 05:13, 26 July 2023
- Mt. Bachelor, Oregon)into popular usage, and in a divided decision, the Oregon Geographic Names Board voted to change the name from Bachelor Butte to Mount Bachelor. In the 1980s...30 KB (3,385 words) - 18:14, 22 November 2023
- County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Dairy was named by William Roberts, a pioneer settler, who chose the name after having...7 KB (421 words) - 04:24, 5 January 2024
McArthur, Lewis A. (2003) [First published 1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87595-277-1...45 KB (3,998 words) - 12:40, 15 May 2024
Geographic Names Information System: Stafford, Oregon "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022. "Geographic Identifiers:...8 KB (528 words) - 10:13, 7 May 2024
- the geographic names of Oregon must have been demonstrated for Governor West named him a member of the resuscitated Board. The Oregon Geographic Board has
- called for the occupation of Oregon as well as the annexation of Texas, thus holding out to the North the promise of Oregon as a counterweight to Southern
- other times the temperature drops below freezing. The City of Portland, Oregon, uses a more complex formula to determine when to open shelters; factors