In Oregon, we have this compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Geographic_Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Geographic_Names Not far away f

In Oregon, we have this compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Geographic_Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Geographic_Names Not far away from where I live, there is a Tam McArthur Rim, named for the author of the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._McArthur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._McArthur https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Tam_McArthur_Rim_Hike https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Tam_McArthur_Rim_Hi... It's interesting what you can learn from them. In western Oregon, largely settled by farmers and their families and so on, the names tend to be kind of boring (like... quite literally "Boring, Oregon") and not very "colorful". Elsewhere, with more miners and cowboys and so on, you had things like "Jumpoff Joe Creek" - probably recognizable to anyone who has driven up and down I5 through Oregon - and "Whorehouse Meadow" and "Malheur Lake". Also interesting is the distribution of names for a 'small valley'. Hollow, arroyo, draw, coulee, gulch, gully, etc...: https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-you-call-that-narrow-valley/ https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-yo...