Soap Creek Valley · Place
Coffin Butte
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Coffin Butte: 87 transcript mentions across 10 records, grouped by who was speaking.
butte
Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 48
- Transcript mentions
- 87
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Provenance
- Coordinates
- 44.70136, -123.23774
- 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
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Who speaks of it
- Auto Tour, 1989 p. 6, p. 10, p. 11, p. 13, p. 16, p. 20
- Bessie Murphy p. 31, p. 47, p. 84, p. 88
- Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 3
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 18, p. 22, p. 24, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 126, p. 127
- Eugene Glender p. 5, p. 10, p. 12, p. 22, p. 26, p. 51, p. 95, p. 98
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 1, p. 4, p. 7, p. 12, p. 13, p. 16, p. 17, p. 21, p. 26, p. 37, p. 40, p. 44, p. 46, p. 56, p. 61, p. 63, p. 66, p. 69, p. 79, p. 81, p. 82, p. 86, p. 88
- Marvin Rowley p. 91
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 5, p. 9, p. 10, p. 37, p. 56, p. 68, p. 70
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 32, p. 51, p. 52, p. 74
- Zybach 1999 thesis p. 6, p. 9, p. 11, p. 13, p. 20, p. 77, p. 99, p. 105, p. 113, p. 121, p. 140, p. 146, p. 148, p. 152, p. 153, p. 168, p. 169, p. 187, p. 191, p. 192, p. 193, p. 199, p. 201, p. 204, p. 231
In their words
The view is from the south, with Tampico School on the hill to the west (left) and Coffin Butte to the northeast (right).
Beaver trappers and traders began entering the Coffin Butte area in the early part of the nineteenth century.
Dated statements about this place
- 1846 — He established a Donation Land Claim to the west of Coffin Butte in 1846 with his wife, Martha "Anna" (Henderson) Hughart (1808- 1846)
- 1885 — Mount Jefferson appears in the background of this drawing of Coffin Butte, published in 1885.
- 1914 — Pictured with their parents are young Jake (b. 1914), Nellie (b. 1915), and Sam (b. 1916). All of the children were born in this house.
- 1914/1989 — Soap Creek Valley: 1914 and 1989 views east from Lewisburg Saddle. These photographs were taken 75 years apart; about the time of Roy Cook's birth, and then again shortly before the May, 1990 tour detailed on the following pages. Note the Cook house in both photos- Coffin Butte appears in the center background on the second photo. These photos first
- 1930 or 1931 — [Eston Carter's house burned down during the dust storm in the spring of 1930 or '31.
- 1930s — But before, it was just -- I mean when somebody seen a deer, like in the 1930's, everybody hollered and called the others, "Look, look there's a deer!" I mean, it was really something to see.
- 1931 — Dust storm from the east, Eston Carter home burns at base of Coffin Butte
- 1936 — Here's Coffin Butte from 1936.
- around 1940 — Rohner Family Photograph. Coffin Butte lies to the northeast in this photograph, taken around 1940.
- 1941 — Ask Babe Studack, he got his mouth full of barley beards and it darned near killed him.
- 1941 — Top Photograph. Panorama made of two “unauthorized” photographs of US Army quarry operations taken during WW II by Wilma Rohner. Photos were made with Kodak Brownie camera she received on her 16th birthday (Rohner 1993).
- 1945 — Note the continued increase in conifer forest area, the sharp decrease in agricultural use, and the military and industrial development of the Coffin Butte area (see Figs. 31 and 32).
- 1945 — The dedication of most Soap Creek Valley land to a single use (see Map 17) by a single owner (see Map 16) resulted in rapid and dramatic changes to forest cover patterns: livestock and fences were removed and grass species went wild; Coffin Butte quarry operations were greatly increased (see Fig. 32);
- 1963-1999 — Since 1963, changes that have affected forest cover patterns of Soap Creek Valley include the widespread establishment of conifer plantations in old clearcuts (including those associated with the Columbus Day Storm) and prairie lands acquired by OSU, establishment of a major solid waste landfill to the south of Coffin Butte
- 1993 — The story begins with the purchase of a farm on the northern slopes of Coffin Butte near the end of World War I, and ends with the farm's purchase by the U.S. Army for training purposes at the beginning of World War II.
- 1999 — Coffin Butte Landfill catches on fire
- 1999-06-12 — Fig. 34 Coffin Butte landfill, June 12, 1999. Entryway to current landfill operations, near former location of Rohner farmhouse (see Map 9; Rohner 1993).
- undated — [Ridders family cemetary is on the Corvallis-Independence Road about due east of Coffm Butte, a little north. JRJ
How to cite this item
The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.
- As printed
- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Coffin Butte (place record).
- This page
- Soap Creek Valley: Coffin Butte. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/coffin-butte/
More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.
Something wrong on this page? Submit a correction — this page is already selected. See how that works.
