Soap Creek Valley · Place

Oregon City

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Oregon City: 3 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Oregon City, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 3

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: 45.35734, -122.60676
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. 9, p. 13
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 31

In their words

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

By 1841, a United States Exploring Expedition under the direction of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was able to follow the well-established "California Trail" from Oregon City to San Francisco.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 9

In this manner, William Berry sold his claim near Oregon City and moved to the Soap Creek area in 1849.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 13

Dated statements about this place

1841 — By 1841, a United States Exploring Expedition under the direction of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was able to follow the well-established "California Trail" from Oregon City to San Francisco. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · Before 1844
1849 — In this manner, William Berry sold his claim near Oregon City and moved to the Soap Creek area in 1849. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859

How to cite this item

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