Kein Creek
The old timers told me long ago that Kein Creek got its name after Captain Kein was killed by the Indians in that area, along the route that used to be known as the Emigrant Road over the Greenspring Mount ain.
Up till about thirty years ago the Kein Creek area was a beautiful country, before Highway 66 was built, which replaced the Emigrant Road, and before the sawmills and logging destroyed Nature's beauty.
Kein Creek was once a fine mountain trout stream. When I was riding the range many years ago I always carried a couple of fish hooks, and many times I have caught a half dozen or so trout by using some hair from my saddle horses' tail tied to the hook for a line, with a grasshopper for a lure, and a willow sprout for a rod.
Around forty or more years ago that was a fine cattle range, but its not near so good now. After the white man came, the fish and game and a lot of other things seemed to have vanished until now there's not much left of the things produced by nature. I once heard an old Indian say, "White man crazy, all time kill-um deer, no eat-um.'
Spelling on maps is Keene Creek, look for Keene Creek Reservoir
George Wright descriptions