[or-roots] changing name - Creek

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Wow!!  great job! Thanks to both Glen & Les. I can go right into Portland & 
see them.

Nancy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] changing name - Creek


> It wasn't easy;
>
> Dr. George L. Vogt, Secretary
> Oregon Geographic Names Board
> Oregon Historical Society
> 1200 S.W. Park Avenue
> Portland, OR 97205-2483
> Telephone: (503) 306-5225
> Fax: (503) 221-2035
> E-mail: georgev at ohs.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
> glenkc7mbm at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:32 PM
> To: or-roots mail list
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] changing name - Creek
>
>
> Nancy
> The Oregon Geographic Names Board is who to contact about changing a name 
> on
> any Geographic feature, you could probably do a search and come up with 
> how
> to contact them.
> Glen
>
> --
> Glen A. Jones
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Nancy Lee Adams" <nancydean at columbia-center.org>
>
> Hi -
>
> Does anyone know how to go about changing the name of a creek in Jackson
> Co., Oregon? When I was on vacation in Rogue River, OR. we went to the 
> water
> master, surveyor and county clerk & none of them knew where to go to 
> change
> the name of a creek. daaaaa  how dum can they be. The creek is on family
> property & been in our family for over 100 years. We have grandfather 
> water
> rights filed 1901 & updated 1909 with the document that reads we do. The
> creek was named after the stepfather & not the real father who got the 
> land
> 1st in 1898.
>
> The water master said no one has water rights in Jackson Co., OR. He is so
> wrong!
>
> Thanks, Nancy
>
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