Soap Creek Valley · Place

Columbia

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Columbia: 9 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Columbia County · Columbia County, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 2
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: 45.94378, -123.08825
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

Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 21, p. 105
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 5, p. 144
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 33, p. 34
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 104, p. 106, p. 109

In their words

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

In a short time we came to the junction of the Cowlitz and Columbia Rivers, and we leave the latter, a swift, tortuous stream for our heavy-laden craft to navigate.

Velma Carter Rawie, #10 Velma Carter Rawie , p. 106

He thought about working with timber interests, but he was offered a scholarship at Columbia University and went on and got his master's degree in Finance there.

Paul M. Dunn, #2 Paul M. Dunn , p. 12

Dated statements about this place

1834 — appeared in Columbia County court on 4 Feb 1834 (age 75 yrs) to make application for pension provided for by congress in 1832 for those who served in the Revolutionary War. Mary Vanderburg Stone · source · Before 1844
1899 — Dorothy Louise, born 25 December 1899, New Denver, British Columbia; married Elton Don Vanderburg 1 May 1918, Fullerton CA; died 28 February 1966, Lebanon, OR. Mary Vanderburg Stone · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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