Soap Creek Valley · Place

Lancaster

A place named in the Soap Creek Valley oral histories.

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

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

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: 44.25290, -123.19565
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

No page mentions have been recorded for this place yet.

In their words

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

Then my dad bought a ranch out in the Mojave desert out there by Lancaster, and it had an artesian well on it.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 6

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

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

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