Lincoln County Landmark Names O-R
OBERMAYER MOUNTAIN (Yaak River Valley)
Named for Anton Obermayer who was killed by a falling snag in the Fire of 1931. Formerly called Mt. Shagnasty.
O'BRIEN CREEK (General Troy Area)
Possibly named for William O'Brien and early 1891 prospector and Troy townsite developer in 1892.
OLSON ADMINISTRATIVE SITE (Yaak River Valley)
Located just south of the Yaak River Road at the 29 mile marker, was withdrawn from homesteading on March 16, 1908. Used by the Forest Service between 1910 and 1930s for seasonal fire fighters and homestead survey crews. Originally consisted of a log cabin, tool cache and a tent camp.
OLSON CABIN (Yaak River Valley)
A name given to the trail maintenance log cabin located approximately 6 1/2 miles up the old Pete Creek Trail.
OLSON LOOKOUT (Yaak River Valley)
A name used for a temporary lookout established on the top of Hensley Hill. A man from the Olson Administration Site would walk up to the top of Hensley Hill following a lightning storm and look around for fires.
OLSON MEADOWS (Yaak River Valley)
The old name for the meadow located about 6 ˝ miles up Pete Creek, or approximately a half mile north of the Beetle Creek Road.
OTIS CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
A tributary of the Yaak River, named for Walter Otis, a Kootenai National Forest clerk in 1912. Before that time, the creek was often referred to as Rabbit Creek.
OWENS CANYON (General Troy Area - Callahan Creek)
In the late 1880s the canyon in which the Big Eight Mine is located on Callahan Creek was known as Owens Canyon, named for Calvin Owens, a prospector.
PAISLEY CAMP (Yaak River Valley)
A name for an early 1895-1898 mining tent camp located at the mouth of Wampoo Creek on the Yaak River. Prospectors ranged along the south part of Abe Lincoln Mountain, Tepee Mountain as well as the Arbo Creek drainage. The camp was later homesteaded by Harry Higgins in the late 1890s.
PAISLEY HOUSE (Yaak River Valley)
The name for a log building used as a stage stop between Leonia and Sylvanite between 1896 and 1900. Located at the mouth of Wampoo Creek and in the early mining camp known as Paisley. Higgins added a framed room onto the old cabin and later the building became known as the Buckhorn Lodge. The building burned in the spring of 1996.
PATCH MOUNTAIN (Yaak River Valley)
A local name given to a small Canadian mountain that can be seen by looking up the North Fork of the Yaak. The square and rectangular patches are sections of the mountain scrapped down to rock by glaciers. The Canadian name for the mountain is “Gilnochie.”
PAYNE CREEK (Bull Lake)
Named for O. F. Payne who settled on the creek in c.1891. For a short period of time, around 1917, this creek was also known as Tallmadge Creek.
PEET CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
An early (1912) spelling for what is known as Pete Creek today. The current spelling appeared on the 1917 and later maps.
PEET CREEK MEADOWS (Yaak River Valley)
This spelling found on early Kootenai National Forest Maps which persisted well into the 1920s before the spelling was changed to Pete Creek Meadows.
PETE CK. CAMPGROUNDS (Yaak River Valley)
Constructed by the Forest Service in 1964 at the site of a Yaak River log drive camp used in the 1910s and 1920s.
PINE CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
Named by early prospectors in 1890 who were camped at Snipetown.
PINE CREEK (Bull Lake Valley)
In 1894, it was the name for a creek now known as Porcupine Creek.
PINK MOUNTAIN (Yaak River Valley)
Probably named for J. K. “Pink” Dwinille, an early Forest Service Ranger in 1914.
PLUNKETT CREEK (Bull Lake Valley)
The name of a small unnamed intermittent stream course which drains the southeastern slope of Copper Mountain. Named for Thomas Plunkett, an early 1892 homesteader.
PORCUPINE CREEK (Bull Lake Valley)
This creek was originally named Pine Creek in 1894.
POVERTY FLAT (Yaak River Valley)
An early 1913 name for the area now known as Yaak, Montana, or where the Yaak Mercantile and Dirty Shame are now located.
PREACHER MOUNTAIN (General Troy Area)
On November 6, 1896, Rev. Alexis Beck, a Troy preacher, went hunting in the vicinity of this mountain, and was never heard from again. Two years later, an old prospector Bill Keeler said that he had found his remains. He refused to disclose the body's location unless he could get a $200 reward. The reward was never paid and the body was never recovered. This mountain has been known as Preacher Mountain ever since.
PROSPECT CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
Located in Arbo Creek Drainage was known as Deep Creek in 1917.
RABBIT CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
This name shows up occasionally on c.1917 Kootenai National Forest Plat Maps but the creek is known as Otis Creek today.
RAT CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
Named by a General Land Office Survey party in 1932.
RAYMOND CREEK (Kootenai River - Star Creek)
Named for Bill Raymond in 1904, an early miner and settler.
RAUSCH POINT (Yaak River Valley)
Named for Charlie Rausch in 1918, an early homesteader.
RED CEDAR CREEK (Bull Lake Valley - Iron Creek)
An early c.1917 name for the North Fork of Iron Creek.
RED TOP CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
Named by miners in 1895. A small mining tent camp known as Williamsburg Camp was located along this creek near its mouth in 1895. Prospectors from this camp sought their riches from the slopes of Red Top Mountain.
RED TOP MOUNTAIN (Yaak River Valley)
Red Top grass grows on the summit. In the spring the mountain top looks red from a distance. It first showed up in print in September 1895 in the Kootenai Herald (Bonners Ferry).
RED TOP CAMPGROUNDS (Yaak River Valley)
A Forest Service campgrounds established in 1959.
ROBINSON MOUNTAIN and ROBINSON CREEK (Yaak River Valley)
Named for Henry Robinson in 1909, an early East Fork of the Yaak River trapper.
ROBINSON CREEK ADMINISTRATION SITE (Yaak River Valley)
Located at Robinson Creek and the Yaak River Road. Used by the Forest Service between 1910 and 1930s. Originally consisted of a small log cabin used as a fire tool cache.
ROCK CREEK (Kootenai River - Leonia)
A creek which drains into the Kootenai River near Leonia, was originally named McCormick Creek which persisted until the 1920s, when the named was changed.
ROCK LAKE (Bull Lake Valley - Shannon Flat)
An early 1893 name for Shannon Lake.
ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN (Yaak River Valley)
Named by Sam Billings in 1929, because the formation at the top reminded him of a chunk of rock candy.
RODERICK MOUNTAIN and RODERICK BUTTE (Yaak River Valley)
Named for Mattie Roderick, one of the first settlers to homestead in the Upper Yaak River Valley, in 1901. Mattie's husband, Al Roderick constructed one of the first buildings, a saloon, in Libby when the town moved from Old Town Libby.
ROSS CREEK and ROSS POINT (Bull Lake)
Named in 1930 for the Ross Brothers, John and A. C. Ross. The brothers were prospectors and miners who worked a number of claims on Ross Creek since 1893. Prior to 1930, this creek was known as Lightning Creek.
RUBY CREEK (General Troy Area)
Named for Al Ruby an early 1892 homesteader.
RUBY ADMINISTRATION SITE (General Troy Area - Ruby Creek)
The Ruby Creek Forest Service Administration site was withdrawn on June 8, 1908 and contained 69 acres (T32N, R34W, S28, NE1/4 of NE1/4 and Lots 3 & 4). The withdrawal was revoked in 1911.