Soap Creek Valley · Place

Government Island

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Government Island: 1 transcript mention across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 1

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: 45.57706, -122.51954
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

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 41

In their words

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

I was posted on a little island up in the Columbia River named McGuire's Island, about the north end of Government Island.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 41

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

More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.

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