Editing Hayfork, California (section)

==Namesake==
Hayfork was originally named '''Nor'el pom''', a [[Wintu]] name meaning "big valley at base of the mountain".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chase-Dunn|first1=Christopher K.|author-link1=Christopher Chase-Dunn|last2=Mann|first2=Kelly M.|title=The Wintu & Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-system in Northern California|date=1998|publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]]|location=[[Tucson, AZ]]|isbn=9780816518005|section=Appendix 3|section-url=https://irows.ucr.edu/cd/appendices/b6/b6app3.htm|access-date=9 Nov 2021}}</ref> It was subsequently named Kingbury, then Haytown, and finally Hayfork after [[Hayfork Creek|the nearby creek]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|date=1998|title=1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning|location=[[Berkeley, CA]]|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=9780520212718}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=65|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=61}}</ref>