Soap Creek Valley · Place

Camp White

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Camp White: 1 transcript mention across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 1
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: 42.43750, -122.85833
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

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 3

In their words

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

So I took a job with the US Fish and Wildlife Service killing the ground squirrels around Camp White where they'd found them carrying the plague the year before.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 3

I was there at Vanport, let's see, went to Camp White, then they transferred me to Vanport in August and they transferred me to Eugene in February.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 3

Dated statements about this place

1943 — Early in 1943, I think it was February, Don was sent to Jackson County by the Fish and Wildlife Service to do Rodent Control on Camp White, which was being constructed near Medford. Maxine Dickey · source · 1941–1950

How to cite this item

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