Yamhill County, Oregon Trivia Tidbits

United States Oregon  Yamhill County  Trivia Tidbits

Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices.


 * Alecs Butte, 45.32039°N, -123.18455°W, Named for Alexander Carson, generally known as Alec Carson, sometimes called Essen, well-known hunter and trapper in very early days, a member of Wilson Prce Hunt's party traveling west in 1810 for a time, appeared to have been trapping in the Willamette Valley. Part of Peter Skene Ogden's brigade trapped the Snake country in 1824-1825. Killed by the Indians at the small hill now known as Alecs Butte in 1826. The butte was part of Willam Fryer farm in 1944.