Mt. Hooper

Fri, Nov 9, 2007

With: Matthew Holliman

Steve Sywyk

Etymology

Mt. Hooper (12,349 ft.)

Named by R. B. Marshall in 1909

Also Lake, Creek

"Major William Burchell Hooper (1836-1903), a native of Virginia; at one time owned the Occidental Hotel is San Francisco. The mountain and the creek were named by R. B. Marshall, USGS, probably during the 1907-09 survey for the Mt. Goddard 30' map; both names are on the first edition, 1912. (Farquhar: Marshall.) Hooper Lake was named in 1948 by Scott M. Soule and Jack Criqui of the DFG, 'because it is at the headwaters of Hooper Creek and directly under Mount Hooper.' (Heyward Moore, FPP 25, no. 5, Spring 1984: 11.)"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

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