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Soap Creek Valley · Place

Boring

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Boring: 2 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

town Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
Index references (printed indexes)
0
Transcript mentions
2

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
45.42984, -122.37481
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

In their words

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

So they thought what Ezra Meeker was doing was not only boring, but it was wrong?
Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 97
Out here between here and Gresham, Boring, Troutdale, and Estacada.
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel, #12 Wanda Marcks Cook , p. 8

How to cite this item

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