Fossil. T. B. Hoover settled nearby many years ago and the stream bears his name.
HOPE, Malheur County. Hope station near Malheur River was named for M, G. Hope, a landowner nearby. It is just west of Vale.
HOPE CREEK, Wallowa County. Hope Creek is tributary to Freezeout Creek just west of Freezeout Saddle in township 2 south, range 48 east. It was named in compliment to Harry Hope, who ranged his stock there.
HOPEWELL, Yamhill County. Hopewell was named in optimism. It is at the east base of the Eola Hills at a point ten miles south of Dayton and a couple of miles west of Wheatland. Hopes of growth have not been fulfilled. Hopewell post office was established June 21, 1897, with John W. Spencer first postmaster in a series of four. The office was closed out to Amity on January 9, 1903, doubtless as a result of the extension of rural free delivery. Hopewell does not appear in gazetteers of the middle '80s.
HOPKINS, Clatsop County. Hopkins post office was near Nehalem River at a point six or seven miles northeast of Jewell. It was named for the first postmaster, Thomas Hopkins. This post office was established February 24, 1890, and was discontinued to Jewell November 15, 1892. The office was reestablished April 10, 1894, and continued in operation until July 14, 1902. There is little left of the community.
HOPMERE, Marion County. Officials of the Oregon Electric Railway named this station Chemeketa when the line was built, hoping to perpetuate the original Indian name of the locality of Salem. However, local enthusiasts were not satisfied, and succeeded in changing the name to Hopmere, a silly mongrel.
HOQUARTEN SLOUGH, Tillamook County. This slough is at Tillamook. Miss Lucy E. Doughty, of Bay City, wrote the compiler in 1927, as follows: "I do not know the meaning of this name. It is thought to be of Indian origin. It has been in use since the first settlers came, as Mr. W. N. Vaughn used it in a memorial that he compiled. He always spelled the word 'Hoquarton. Now the name is applied only to the slough and to a voting precinct in the city, but for a long time after we came here, Hoquarton Prairie was the name used for the neighborhood now known as Fairview. When a town was first laid out on the bank of this slough, it was named Lincoln, but as there was already a post office of that name in Polk County, the post office had to be Tillamook. The site had been called Hoquarton, the Landing, or Tillamook Landing. I think it was usually called Hoquarton by the settlers in the bay neighborhood and it was not until 1885 that I began to hear the town called Tillamook. Before that, when we said Tillamook' we meant the county." The government now uses the spelling Hoquarten for the slough. This style is well established.
HORNING GAP, Lake County. Horning Gap is a pass in the hills north of Silver Lake, named for a homesteader.
HORSE CREEK, Lane County. This stream joins McKenzie River from the south, not far from McKenzie Bridge. George Frissell, an early settler on McKenzie River, is authority for the story that the stream was named because in pioneer days some emigrants succeeded in getting a wagon over the summit of the Cascade Range near the head of Horse Creek and got their wagon down on the west slope a considerable distance. They lost their horses, and the stream was named
