Soap Creek Valley · Place

Rohner Farm

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Rohner Farm: 8 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

farm Tour map key F Coordinate: inferred

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 8

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: 44.70130, -123.22800
How they were found: coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it: inferred
Home site of: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner, Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Home site

On Map 9 of the 1999 thesis this is plotted as the home site of John Jacob "Jake" Rohner, Wilma "Willie" Rohner .

Plotted northeast, at Coffin Butte / Adair Road area.

Who speaks of it

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 24, p. 25, p. 26, p. 27, p. 28, p. 29, p. 30, p. 31

In their words

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

This is pictures of the Rohner farm and family, now.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 67

Dated statements about this place

1928 — But see 1928 we bought the tractor and then, we started using the tractor. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1928 — and after in 1928 when my father bought a tractor then we used the tractor on the binder, and we had lights on the tractor. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1930-1933 — [In 1930-33 we grew navy beans, 14-15 acres. Wilma "Willie" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1932 — Originally, it was for water, but it was replaced in 1932 with an electrical system (home built after World War I) to pump water. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1937 — We had a new barn in 1937 and in 1941 we built the new barn and had it almost done except for the siding on two sides. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
around 1940 — Rohner Family Photograph. Coffin Butte lies to the northeast in this photograph, taken around 1940. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1941 — Just Bud and I pretty much at home alone, milking and stuff. And I was about 16, so Bud was about 12 I think. Had to be, yeah. Wilma "Willie" Rohner · source · 1941–1950
August 6, 1941 — that was in August, Bud's birthday was August 6, so we were still out there in on August 6, I know we was. Wilma "Willie" Rohner · source · 1941–1950
1942 — We put in a line fence and while we were here, until 1942, there was nothing growing there, we kept it clean, excepting where that grove of ash trees is, that was always there. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1941–1950
1993 — The story begins with the purchase of a farm on the northern slopes of Coffin Butte near the end of World War I, and ends with the farm's purchase by the U.S. Army for training purposes at the beginning of World War II. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

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