Soap Creek Valley · Place

Kings Valley

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Kings Valley: 54 transcript mentions across 12 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Kings Valley [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 9
Transcript mentions: 54

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: 44.70679, -123.43455
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 27
Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 13, p. 19, p. 98
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 9
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 4, p. 15, p. 16, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 59, p. 61, p. 63, p. 65, p. 67, p. 68, p. 70, p. 72, p. 94, p. 97, p. 136, p. 145, p. 151, p. 168, p. 175
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 4, p. 20
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 102
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 44, p. 53, p. 54, p. 57, p. 58
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 88, p. 89
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 33, p. 88, p. 89, p. 104
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 7, p. 8
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 18, p. 40, p. 51, p. 74
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 9, p. 11, p. 128, p. 137, p. 139, p. 143, p. 164, p. 187

In their words

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

Not so much over there, but he ran sheep over, east of Kings Valley, and I think he ran bear over there with his dogs to protect the sheep.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 20

The saloon was favorite gathering place for soldiers stationed at Fort Hoskins in Kings Valley west of Tampico.

Eugene Glender, #9 Eugene Glender , p. 102

Dated statements about this place

1850s — Ponderosa pine] in the 1850's, do you ever remember seeing any pine? Bob Zybach · source · 1845–1859
1952 — And the wind blew down through that gap there from Kings Valley in the wintertime, and my brother was working hard and he had trouble with his lungs or something, so he decided he had better get out of there so he moved to Arizona, and well, they had given him in 1952 ten years to live because he'd had Donald M. Dickey · source · 1951–1970

How to cite this item

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