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Proposal to Rename Big Squaw Mountain in Douglas County, Oregon

Name suggestion: Ford Mountain

After Kenneth “Pappy” Webster Ford

We have searched an found no geographical mountains, peaks

Biography of Kenneth “Pappy” Webster Ford

Kenneth “Pappy” Webster Ford, was an iconic Douglas County, Oregon and Pacific Northwest timber merchant, as well as a very generous philanthropist. Ford was born on August 4, 1908 in Asotin, Washington, and passed away on February 8, 1997 at the age of 88, in Roseburg, Oregon.

Ford built Roseburg Forest Products Co. from a collection of secondhand machinery into the largest privately held timber company in the nation. In 1936, Ford established a mill near Roseburg, Oregon and soon after that paid $4 an acre for 85,000 acres that the county had taken over for delinquent taxes. That purchase was the beginning of the Roseburg Forest Products empire, which now has assets of $1 billion and does business in 10 US States and in Ontario, Canada. In 1970, Ford and his former wife, Hallie, created the Ford Family Foundation, which has donated tens of millions of dollars to schools, public agencies and charities. Most of the scholarships and other grants from the foundation have been awarded in the 11 geographical areas where Ford’s company operates.

Forests and the timber industry define the culture of southern Oregon, with Douglas County, Oregon once being proclaimed the “Timber Capitol of the World”. The post-World War II building boom spurred logging all across the county and especially in Douglas County. Timber harvests in Douglas County topped 1 billion board feet in 1948, dipped slightly under that mark the following year and then remained over 1 billion board feet per year for three decades. Production peaked at 1.96 billion board feet in 1955, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.

Kenneth and Hallie Ford rose from humble beginnings with a single sawmill during the Great Depression and helped transform the state's timber industry. They founded one of the largest privately owned wood-products companies in the country, bringing the title "Timber Capital of the Nation" to Roseburg, Oregon. Their legacy remains today through the Ford Family Foundation, dedicated to educational grants and community improvements.

Information about Big Squaw Mountain, Douglas County OR

Latitude: 43.1403978°N Longitude: -122.7736616°W Approximate Elevation: 4,849 ft (1,478 m)

43° 8' 28'' N, 122° 46' 27'' W 43.141187, -122.774191 (Dec Deg) GeoNames ID: 5714163

Topo Map Name: Taft Mountain Category: Summits

Location information for Big Squaw Mountain in Oregon: Big Squaw Mountain is one of the Summits in Douglas County, OR Can be found on the Taft Mountain USGS topographic quad map. The GPS coordinates are 43.1403978 (latitude), -122.7736616 (longitude) The approximate elevation is 4,849 feet (1,478 meters) above sea level.

In the Area – Localities • 55 miles Southeast of Roseburg • 61 miles Northeast of Myrtle Creek • 39 miles Southeast of Glide, (unincorporated) • 14 miles South of Steamboat, (unincorporated) • 15 miles Southeast of Cow Horn Arch • 15 miles Southeast of Peel, (unincorporated) • 17 miles Northeast of Tiller, (unincorporated)

Landmarks Black Butte Summit, 1 mile northeast Abes Mountain Summit, 1½ miles west Foster Butte Summit, 1½ miles west Cavitt Mountain Summit, 2½ miles northeast

Other Places Hemlock Lake Campground, 5 miles northeast Hemlock Meadows Dam, 5 miles northeast Hemlock Meadows Campground, 5 miles northeast Red Butte Lookout Tower, 6 miles west

Key Col: 3957 ft/1206 m Distance: 0.92 mi/1.48 km Isolation Limit Point: 43.1533, -122.7667 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Black Butte (NNE) Ranges Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: Oregon Cascades Range5: Crater Lake Area Drainage Basins: Umpqua Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean

Ownership Land: Umpqua National Forest Topo Map Taft Mountain O43122b7 1:24,000

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Feature Detail Report for: Big Squaw Mountain Mapping Services

GNIS in ESRI Map ID: 1138084 USGS The National Map Name: Big Squaw Mountain HomeTownLocator Class: Summit (Definitions) ACME Mapper 2.0 U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981). 31-Dec- Microsoft Virtual Earth 1981. Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Citation: Find the Watershed Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps. Entry 28-Nov-1980 Date: Important Links *Elevation: 4849/1478

*Elevations in feet/meters from the National Elevation Dataset GNIS Home U.S. Board on Geographic Variant Names Names Mapping Information

Variant Name Big Squaw Citation

Counties

Sequence County Code State Code Country 1 Douglas 019 Oregon 41 US

Coordinates (One point per USGS topographic map containing the feature, NAD83)

Sequence Latitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map Name 1 43.1403978 -122.7736616 430825N 1224625W Taft Mountain

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