Soap Creek Valley · Place

Eugene

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Eugene: 17 transcript mentions across 10 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 17

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: 44.05207, -123.08675
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

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 70, p. 94
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 3
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 3, p. 57, p. 60
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 3, p. 35
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 3, p. 75
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 94
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 15
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 39, p. 98
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 4, p. 23
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 8

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 next place of note we came to was where the beautiful city of Eugene is located.

Velma Carter Rawie, #10 Velma Carter Rawie , p. 98

Dated statements about this place

1934 — What Gene [Eugene Glender] says that about 1934 or '35 they started getting rainbows in here. Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1937-01-01 — Might have been '37 [According to Eugene Glender, the snowstorm began on January 1, 1937 and continued for 2 or 3 weeks], but it was while we lived there. Neil Vanderburg · source · 1921–1940
1990-10-02 — Donald Dickey Eulogy read at funeral service, Trinity Methodist Church, Eugene, Oregon, October 2, 1990, by his daughter, Patricia Patricia Dickey Creelman · source · 1971–1995
1991-04-08 — Maxine Dickey Eugene, Oregon April 8, 1991 Maxine Dickey · source · 1971–1995

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