Soap Creek Valley · Place

Dallas

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Dallas: 15 transcript mentions across 9 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Dallas, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 15

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: 44.91892, -123.31587
How they were found: coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; 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

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 27
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 154, p. 155, p. 161, p. 162
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 38
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 15, p. 34
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 100, p. 102
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 62
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 121
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 44
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 102, p. 115

In their words

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

They first located near Dallas in Polk county.

Velma Carter Rawie, #10 Velma Carter Rawie , p. 115

The timber was logged by the Willamette Valley Lumber Company based in Dallas, which is now the Willamette Industries.

Paul M. Dunn, #2 Paul M. Dunn , p. 44

Dated statements about this place

1938 — Then in the summer of '38 another fellow that was working for Hap at the time and I decided that we could make more money up west of Dallas and so we went up and got a job, he got a job falling and I got a job bucking. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1921–1940

How to cite this item

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