Soap Creek Valley · Place

Oak Creek

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Oak Creek: 59 transcript mentions across 8 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: OAK CREEK · Oak Creek (1949) · Oak Creek [Benton Co.] · Oak [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 23
Transcript mentions: 59

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: 44.55484, -123.27815
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

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 12, p. 13, p. 57
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 2, p. 47, p. 48, p. 133, p. 141, p. 142, p. 144, p. 145, p. 146, p. 147, p. 149, p. 153
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 10, p. 52
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 11, p. 24, p. 25, p. 28, p. 32, p. 45, p. 46, p. 57, p. 58, p. 62, p. 64, p. 72, p. 88, p. 98, p. 99, p. 104, p. 106, p. 108, p. 110, p. 111
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 88, p. 91, p. 95, p. 97, p. 98, p. 103, p. 105, p. 106, p. 107, p. 108, p. 110
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 36, p. 37, p. 39
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 16, p. 17, p. 30, p. 34, p. 40
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 37, p. 46, p. 128

In their words

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

But Bill bought a little place next to his father's place out on Oak Creek.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 133

And right at the end of Corvallis, as you come out west to go out towards Oak Creek, there is a school house.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 144

Dated statements about this place

1940s — Yes, there was one that came over into the Oak Creek area, in the mid 1940's. Paul M. Dunn · source · 1921–1940
1940s — There was literature that the beavers were stocked in Oak Creek in the late 1940s by Oregon State researchers, but i'm not sure that they still know that. Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1940s — I found a research report by a man named Storm that said they stocked beaver on Oak Creek in the 1940s. Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1946 — They had a school sawmill that was put in about 1946 or 1947, way up on Oak Creek, that the Forest Products people worked in some. Marvin Rowley · source · 1941–1950
October 1949 — One of these slash fires, in October 1949, burned into green timber in several areas on the head of Oak Creek. Marvin Rowley · source · 1941–1950
1957 — We did that job, and then we negotiated a sale on a forest in 1957, I think it was, up on Oak Creek. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
1957 — From Oak Creek we logged ‘bout 300,000 feet, I think, off that sale, in the fall of 1957, early spring of 1958. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
1963 — Yeah, when we built that road up there, west fork of Oak Creek Road, the 6020 Road in 1963. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
1964 — There was a mass failure on the West Fork of Oak Creek that was caused by four-wheel-drive vehicles using a skid road and destroying the water bars before the 1964 flood. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
December 1969 — The next year, in December 1969 and January 1970, we clearcut-harvested 30 acres of scattered timber on the north side of Mitzy Point at the head of Oak Creek. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
1991-01-26 — Map of the tour of Berry Creek and Oak Creek with Neil Vanderburg on January 26, 1991. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995
1991-02-23 — Top Left. Marvin Rowley (Rowley 1996) stands next to the rootwad of a wind thrown Douglas-fir along the pioneer (and possibly Kalapuyan) ridge line trail dividing Bakers Creek and Oak Creek (see Map 2) during February 23, 1991 tour of Soap Creek Valley. Zybach (thesis) · source · 1971–1995

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