America’s School Trust Library The Zybach Collection

Soap Creek Valley · Place

Cottage Grove

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

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

Also printed as: Cottage Grove, Oregon

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.

Basemap: USGS The National Map. Pan and zoom with the mouse or the + / − controls; select a marker for its name and a link.

Provenance

Coordinates
43.79762, -123.05952
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.

And worked there, Eugene, Cottage Grove, Junction City, Oakridge, Coburg, and I stayed pretty busy.
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 3
The farthest I know we ever went was Cottage Grove, what they call the Smith River fire; that was the farthest we went that way.
Edward Sekermestrovich, #4 Edward Sekermestrovich , p. 34

How to cite this item

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