Places are named after animals, disasters, people, and other assorted things. She was killed by cougars and her body found near the creek. Coburg, Lane County named for a racehorse called Coburg from Coburg, Germany. Or there were names given for living things other than man.
Creeks seem to be a place of hazard for both major and minor disaster.
About 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Sims were on the way to a Thanksgiving dinner with Uncle George Frissel. Mrs. Sims had her baby in one arm and a dressed goose in the other. The horse jumped suddenly and the goose fell in the creek. A coffeepot fell out of an immigrant wagon and was run over by a wheel and ruined here. Egg Creek, Linn County Ray Talbert, a member of a trail crew was insulted by one Anderson, another crew member, and Talbert retaliated by hitting Anderson with a hard boiled egg.