Report (1851), page 214, gives Chat-sops. Scouler, in Journal, Ethnological Association, London (1846), gives Chadsops. Schoolcraft, in Indian Tribes, map (1853), gives Clasops. Lewis and Clark give Clat-sops. Farnham, in Travels, (1843), page 111, gives Clatsops. The Clatsops were of the Chinookan family, formerly at the mouth of the Columbia River, on the south side, between Tongue Point and the ocean, and south to Tillamook Head. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805-06 among them at Fort Clatsop.
Clatsop County has a land area of 821 square miles, according to the U. S. Bureau of the Census. The name Clatsop has been applied to a number of geographic features in Oregon, including Clatsop Plains and Clatsop Spit.
Cleawox Lake, Lane County. This lake is about one mile south of Siuslaw Inlet and a mile east of the Pacific Ocean. It has an elevation of 82 feet. The name is ob- viously an Indian one but the writer has not been able to ascertain its meaning. The United States Geographic Board has officially adopted the name Cleawox Lake in- stead of Cleawok Lake or Buck Lake.
Cleetwood Cove, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. This cove was named for the boat with which Will G. Steel sounded Crater Lake for the government in 1886. In a dream Mr. Steel fancied he heard the word applied to a golden arrow. The dream was so vivid that he christened his boat Cleetwood.
Clem, Gilliam County. Clem is said to have been named for a well-known Gilliam County character, Clemmens Augustus Danneman, who owned a ranch where travelers could get accommodations. He was a native of Germany and a veteran of the Civil War. Clem is a station on the Condon branch of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company.
