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Soap Creek Valley · Place

STOP #4 SOAP CREEK [Settlers]

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about STOP #4 SOAP CREEK [Settlers]: 1 transcript mention across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

auto-tour-stop Auto Tour stop 4 Tour map key 4 Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: SOAP CREEK

Index references (printed indexes)
14
Transcript mentions
1

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates
44.69072, -123.24408
How they were found
coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it
inferred
Built from
The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned
From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

This landmark was used by HBC beaver hunters in the 1830's, by pioneer road builders in the 1840's, and by subsistance farmers in the 1920's to guide their way to the Soap Creek Valley.
Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 13
In this manner, William Berry sold his claim near Oregon City and moved to the Soap Creek area in 1849.
Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 13

How to cite this item

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The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: STOP #4 SOAP CREEK [Settlers] (place record).
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