GEOGRAPHIC NAMES HANDBOOK
CHAPTER 2 – FOREST SERVICE PROCEDURES
2.12c – Exhibit 1
USDA Forest Service
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PROPOSAL OF NAME FOR AN UNNAMED DOMESTIC FEATURE
(Ref. FSM 7147)
Proposed name:
Sate:
Found Lake
Oregon
Unit
Date Preparated:
County:
Desbutes
Pronuciation, if not obvious (use Webster’s Dictionary symbols) – Obvious
Latitude: 43’
43’
21” N.
Section 25’ T. 215’R
6E
Longitude 121’
57’
Willamette
24’ w.
Meridian
Description and exient of feature:
A 10 ace lake approximately 1 mile east of the Cascade Divide in a volcanic area where very little
surface drainage has developed.
Distances and direction form prominent features or towns:
6-3/4 miles northerly from Maiden Peak, 10 miles westerly from Wickiup Reservoir.
Basis of knowledge that the feature is unnamed:
The USGS Maiden Peak quadrangle of 1930, the General Land Office Plat of 1885, the Oregon Highway
Transportation Map of Deschutes County, Streams and Lakes in Oregon, the Forest Atlas, and the Forest
Maps were all checked and no name was found for this lake.
Reason for choice of Name:
x description
for a nearby feature:
for a person:
other (state reasons):
If the name is descriptive, state why it is appropriate: The lake is very hard to find in this broken country so when it
ws found by the Oregon State Game Commission personnel in 1951 by using aerial photos, they named it Found
Lake, and is so recorded in their fish planting records.
If named for another feature state: For that other feature.
1. Name
2. Any knows variant spellings or other names.
3. Number of years known by present name.
4. Relation of the two features.
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