Soap Creek Valley · Place

Bakers Creek

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Bakers Creek: 9 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

creek Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Also printed as: Baker Creek · Baker Creek [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 4
Transcript mentions: 9

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: 44.64234, -123.31343
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
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

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 12
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 58, p. 87, p. 94, p. 99
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 9, p. 37, p. 182, p. 187

In their words

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

Examples of this are found at the head of Calloway Creek, north of the Lewisburg Saddle, on the headwaters of Baker Creek, and West Fork of Oak Creek.

Marvin Rowley, #15 Marvin Rowley , p. 99

I haven’t found it down in the Baker Creek, yet.

Marvin Rowley, #15 Marvin Rowley , p. 58

Dated statements about this place

1991-02-23 — Top Left. Marvin Rowley (Rowley 1996) stands next to the rootwad of a wind thrown Douglas-fir along the pioneer (and possibly Kalapuyan) ridge line trail dividing Bakers Creek and Oak Creek (see Map 2) during February 23, 1991 tour of Soap Creek Valley. Zybach (thesis) · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Bakers Creek (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Bakers Creek. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/bakers-creek/
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