Soap Creek Valley · Place

Berry Creek

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Berry Creek: 100 transcript mentions across 13 records, grouped by who was speaking.

creek Coordinate: sources disagree

Also printed as: Berry Creek (community) · Berry Creek [Benton & Polk Cos.] · Berry Creek [Benton Co.] · Berry [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 4
Transcript mentions: 100

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: 44.73095, -123.22899
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: sources disagree
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 6, p. 7, p. 8
Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 32
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 3, p. 7, p. 15, p. 45
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 34, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 132, p. 137
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 8, p. 9, p. 11, p. 19, p. 22, p. 25, p. 26, p. 27, p. 29, p. 30, p. 38, p. 40, p. 41, p. 43, p. 44, p. 49, p. 55
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 1, p. 2, p. 6
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 1, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9, p. 12, p. 13, p. 15, p. 44, p. 53, p. 63, p. 66, p. 76
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 5, p. 7, p. 8, p. 29, p. 36, p. 54, p. 56
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 30, p. 46, p. 107
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 1, p. 4, p. 11, p. 15, p. 44, p. 46, p. 48, p. 50, p. 56, p. 63, p. 68, p. 70, p. 76, p. 77, p. 81, p. 85, p. 86, p. 89, p. 94, p. 95, p. 98, p. 99, p. 103, p. 104, p. 115, p. 120, p. 127, p. 129
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 50, p. 57, p. 67, p. 68
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 18, p. 24, p. 49, p. 50
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 39, p. 81, p. 96, p. 112, p. 137, p. 138, p. 190, p. 232

In their words

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

Is that the one that goes out to Suver Junction, and out to Berry Creek?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 36

Berry Creek (which you will be crossing on your way to the next stop), like Soap Creek and other Willamette Valley streams, had been heavily impounded by beaver dams.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 7

Dated statements about this place

1826-10-04 — On October 4, 1826, in the approximate area of Berry Creek (see Map 2), McLeod noted a group of Kalapuyans “gleaning a miserable existence digging roots” (Davies 1961). Zybach (thesis) · source · Before 1844
1846 — the Mennonites had renamed Savage Creekname for 1846 Applegate Trail Pioneer, Morgan Savageto the "South Fork" of Berry Creek because it sounded more "civilized." Zybach (editorial) · source · 1845–1859
1928 — And in 1928 we moved from Yamhill up to Berry Creek, and one of the reasons for it was they wanted to get closer to Oregon State [University]. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1921–1940
1928 — When you moved to Berry Creek then was 1928? Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1928 — Do you remember any of the families that lived in Berry Creek in 1928? Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1930-1938 — JAMES HANISH Biographical Sketch And A Tour Of Berry Creek Benton And Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930-1938 Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1930s — Neil Vanderburg, after a grueling interview regarding his family's history and his memories of the Berry Creek area during the 1930s. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1930 — Because on the Berry Creek side, about 1930 or '31, we're getting the first cat logging and first log trucks, so it was a little bit earlier. Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1935 — Jim Hanish and his mother, Connie at the Hanish home along Berry Creek c. 1935. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1937 — Now, on your father, when you had a snowstorm in, was it 1937, on Berry Creek, did he compare that to that earlier one? Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1938 — It was in 1938 when I went to apply for teacher at the Berry Creek School. Maxine Dickey · source · 1921–1940
1940 — In the fall of 1940 the Berry Creek School closed because there weren't enough students. Maxine Dickey · source · 1921–1940
1990-01 — The interviews took place on OSU Research Forest properties in January and April of 1990 in the vicinity of Berry Creek and Forest Peak of the Dunn Forest tracts. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995
1990-09-01 — Map of the tour of Soap Creek and Berry Creek with Neil Vanderburg on September 1, 1990. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995
1991-01-26 — Map of the tour of Berry Creek and Oak Creek with Neil Vanderburg on January 26, 1991. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995

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