south by portions of Baker and Grant Counties; and on the west by Umatilla County. Its county seat is La Grande.
Lake County.
Lake County was created October 24, 1874, by the State Legislature (General Laws of 1874, page 38). It comprised the southern portion of Wasco County as the latter then was. It was bounded on the south by the California State line; on the west by Jackson, Douglas, and Lane Counties; on the north by the south line of township number twenty-two south of the Oregon Base line, the present south line of Crook County; and on the east by the east boundary of township number twenty-three east of the Willamette Meridian.
It derives its name by reason of the numerous lakes within its boundaries.
Lake County is now bounded: on the north by a portion of Crook County; on the east by a portion of Harney County; on the south by the California and Nevada State lines; and on the west by Klamath County. Its county seat is Lakeview.
Klamath County.
Klamath County was created October 17, 1882, by the State Legislature. (Special Laws of 1882, page 107). It comprises the western portion of Lake County as the latter was originally.
Its name is derived from Klamath Lakes. Upper Klamath Lake is in Klamath County. Lower Klamath Lake is partly in that county and partly in Siskiyou County, California. From the fact that the country around Upper Klamath Lake is the habitat of an Indian tribe it is usually called the Klamath tribe.
The name is spelled in various ways in early books on Oregon: Clammat, in Wyeth's Journal of his first expedition, page 181; Clamath, in Lee and Frost's "Ten Years in Oregon," page 177; Klamac, in Duflot de Mofras' "Exploration," Vol.
