Soap Creek Valley · Place

Forest Peak

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Forest Peak: 26 transcript mentions across 8 records, grouped by who was speaking.

peak Tour map key H Coordinate: sources disagree

Also printed as: Forest Peak [1853, Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 9
Transcript mentions: 26

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: 44.67936, -123.31536
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: sources disagree
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. 32
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 24, p. 123, p. 128
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 49
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 26, p. 117
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 12, p. 44, p. 45, p. 74, p. 75
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 7
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 17, p. 23, p. 33, p. 42, p. 66
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 6, p. 9, p. 92, p. 96, p. 107, p. 113, p. 183, p. 187

Dated statements about this place

1905 — Glender fields, c. 1905. Named hills in background include Writsmans Hill and Forest Peak. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1990-01 — The interviews took place on OSU Research Forest properties in January and April of 1990 in the vicinity of Berry Creek and Forest Peak of the Dunn Forest tracts. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

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