(See Streetcars in Washington, D.C.) According to local tradition, surveyors from the Pacific Northwest named the town, giving the streets names such as "Shasta" and "Cascade".

Filed on April 24, 1890, the surveyor named the community in honor of John Brandon and Noble Street for himself.

The surveyors named it "Upper Bottom" to distinguish from a piece of land further to the east that was named "Lower Bottom", present day Duboistown and South Williamsport.

With great logic, the surveyors named it Four Mile Creek.

In 1912, two surveyors staying at the home of resident Frank Barton, laid out a town around the lake, sold lots, and named the town for Barton.

By 1797, a young surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River.

During Franklin's second arctic voyage in 1826 his surveyor named the Inman River, northwest of Coppermine River, Canada, after Inman.

The village of Minerva began when a surveyor named John Whitacre purchased 123 acres of land from Isaac Craig in 1818 for the construction of a log mill.

His homestead was near the junction of these two branches, therefore surveyors named the east branch Murrindindi Creek (now River).