Soap Creek Valley · Place

Highway 99

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Highway 99: 13 transcript mentions across 6 records, grouped by who was speaking.

highway Coordinate: inferred

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 13

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: 44.69932, -123.20217
How they were found: coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it: inferred
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 3
Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 25, p. 72, p. 74, p. 77
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 128
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 12, p. 51, p. 93
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 12, p. 19, p. 128
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 10

In their words

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

Notice the juncture of the creeks to the east of Highway 99.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 26

This is the center railroad tracks just east of Highway 99 and Richards Store, about a quarter ofa mile.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 128

Dated statements about this place

1853 — In 1853. And that's what became Highland Way in 1905. [PHIL] So what did they do, they went up sort of like up where Highway 99 is now till they got to sort of the ridge the hospital is on and then turned west to go around that marshy area down there? Yep. [PHIL] And so then they would go Bob Zybach / Phil Hays · source · 1845–1859
1905 — Around 1905 it was called Ninth Street. Bob Zybach · source · 1891–1920
1905 — And that's what became Highland Way in 1905. [PHIL] So what did they do, they went up sort of like up where Highway 99 is now till they got to sort of the ridge the hospital is on and then turned west to go around that marshy area down there? Yep. [PHIL] And so then they would go out off Bob Zybach / Phil Hays · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Highway 99 (place record).
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