George Wright Place Names

Hutton Creek
Hutton Creek empties into Cottonwood Creek north of Horn­ brook, and it heads in the south slopes of the Pilot Rock area.
The Hutton Creek area used to be, and I guess it… more

Shelton Rock
There is a peak, or pointed hill, between Hutton Creek and Highway 99 North of what used to be called the Crovelle Ranch. The peak is known as Shelton Rock. Why it was named… more

Terrill ranch
The Terrill Ranch is on up Hutton Creek from the Crovelle Ranch. Years ago Oscar Terrill and his family lived there. I don't know what the little ranch is called these… more

Anderson grade
The Anderson Grade was part of the old stage road between the Klamath River on the north and the Shasta River on the south.
The road was narrow and crooked and as the… more

Hilt
I don't know much about the little town of Hilt. It could
be called a sawmill town because the lumbering and logging business seems to be the most active there, although… more

Ivin Miller's homestead
Some time around forty years ago a man we knew as Dad Miller located a homestead at the head of the east fork of Hutton Creek. I remember him well, and used to… more

Swift's homestead
I don't know how long Hiram Swift, also known as "High" Swift, lived on his little ranch west of little Pilot Rock near Hutton Creek. He was there when… more

Goat ranch
A long time ago, probably around fifty years or so, people settled on Hutton Creek a little south of the Oregon California boundary. There are the remains of two sets of buildings… more

Pilot Rock
Pilot Rock was first called Pilot Knob, and was the feeding ground for mountain sheep and the grizzly bear. It is a big, bluffy rock, and the area on its east side is one of the… more

Robber's Rock
Back in the spring of 1915 William A. Wright and I started out for the summit of the Siskiyou Mountains with a team and wagon loaded with a camp outfi.t. After leaving… more

Horn's Peak
Horn's Peak is about one mile north and east from Hornbrook and a couple of miles north from what used to be the Horn Ranch. It was named for David M. Horn, Sr., a… more

Dead Horse Gulch
Dead Horse Gulch heads just east of Horn Peak and empties into the Klamath River just below the present bridge across the river near the old town of Klamathon.
Many… more

Seikel ranch
The Ed J. Seikel Ranch was located on one of the forks of Dead Horse Gulch, about a mile or more from the Klamath River.
From twenty-five to forty years ago I did a lot of… more

Willow Creek
Willow Creek empties into the Klamath River less than a mile upstream from the old town of Klamathon. The creek is quite long and is well known. It heads up in the mountains… more

Little Bogus Creek
The little creek or gulch that empties into the Klamath River about two miles up the river from old Klamathon Town and on the east side of the river, is called Little… more

Giddings Hill
In going down the Klamath River to Hornbrook the road crosses Cedar Gulch and then goes over a little hill and down to the
river again. The hill is called Giddings Hill,… more

Klamathon
Klamathon was a busy little town before the fire in 1902
destroyed the most of it, including the sawmill.
The logs for the mill came from around the Pokegama area. They… more

Thrall ranch
The ranch that is now called the Thrall Ranch was known as Laird's Station when I was a little boy. For many years, up until 1899 or later, William T. Laird owned and… more

Cedar Gulch
Cedar Gulch empties into the Klamath River on the north side about two miles upstream from Klamathon. Going down stream
the road crosses Cedar Gulch just before going over… more

Scholenburger ranch
In the early 1870 1 s, my grandfather; William R. Wright, and family, settled on the north side of Klamath River near the mouth of Dry Creek. I believe that Wright was… more

Dry Creek
Dry Creek is a small but rather long creek that empties into the north side of Klamath River about a mile upstrerun from Cedar Gulch. It has water only during the winter months. It… more

Elie's Flat
It has been a long time since I heard any one mention Elie's Flat. Maybe it is private land now, and fenced in since I have not been there for over twenty-five years. I… more

Nay's Springs
One of the old place names I notice is Nay's Springs, which are located near the head of Paine's Ditch. There are two springs close together, and I wonder how… more

H.J. Quigley's homestead
Back around 1914, Horace J. Quigley and his family came from Watsonville, California, by team and wagon, a located a homestead along the upper part of Dry Creek… more

McHenry's homestead
Grant McHenry was the blacksmith in Hornbrook before he locat­ ed his homestead, about 1915, in the upper part of the Dry Creek area, south of Little Pilot Rock, and… more

Pedro Smith's homestead
Many years ago when I was a little sprout there was a little ranch on the sunny south slope at the head of Dry Creek. For many years the place was called the… more

Little Pilot Rock
The ridge between the head of Dry Creek and Hutton Creek rises, or bulges up into a backbone of almost solid rock. The high place in the ridge was named Little Pilot Rock,… more

Brush Creek
Brush Creek runs into the north side of the Klamath River about a mile and a half upstream from Dry Creek. I do not know how it was named, but from where it empties into the… more

Bogus ranch
I don't remember who first owned the Bogus Ranch, which is located at the mouth of Bogus Creek, on the south side of the Klamath River.
The early settlers told me… more

Horseshoe Bend
I do not hear the name, Horseshoe Bend, mentioned very much these days. One reason is, I suppose, that there are not as many cattle and horses on the range, and the stock men… more

Bogus Creek
Bogus Creek has water the year round and goes through a rather open, rolling country. Several ranches use its water for irrigation. It heads up in the Bogus Mountains, where the… more

Little Good Water
Long before our mothers ever thought of you and me, and long before the railroads came up through the valleys, a little group of riders of the range land came upon a little… more

Oak Spring
In the extreme head of Brush Creek and about a mile or less west of Horseshoe Bend on the south slope facing Little Good Water there is a nice spring. It is called Oak Spring,… more

Brady's Lick
Brady's Lick is about one mile or less from the Pedro Smith Homestead on the south slope facing Little Good Water. I do not remember how the spring got its name.… more

Iron Gate
Tllere is a place along the Klamath River between Hearn's
Flat and the mouth of Brush Creek where the bluffs on both sides
of the river pinches in to the water… more

Liskey ranch
About sixty five years age a Civil War Veteran with the name of Beers and his family came from around Dorris in Butte Valley and settled along Brush Creek. I do not know how he… more

Hearn's Flat
Along the Klamath River about half way between Camp Creek and Brush Creek the hills on the west side of the river spread out away from the river in a quarter eirel_e to… more

Choke Cherry Spring
It is a nice spring with a lot of choke cherry trees around it and that is why it was named the Choke Cherry Spring.
During the prohibition days in the nineteen… more

Frannk Miller's homestead
Somewhere around fifty years ago or more Frank Miller located a homestead between Coyote Peak and the Klamath River and lived there a while and then the… more

Herzog's place

Bruch ranch

Mud Spring Creek

Ward's Flat

Mud Spring

Pine Creek
Pine Creek empties into Camp Creek on the De Soza Ranch. It heads in the high mountains east of Pilot Rock and west of Lone Pine Ridge and around the Spider Camp. In the early… more

Horse Shoe ranch

Brushy Gulch

Spaulding's camp

Slide Creek

Red Slide