America’s School Trust Library The Zybach Collection

Soap Creek Valley · Place

Silverton

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

town Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
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
45.00512, -122.78315
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

In their words

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

A fellow from Silverton cut them for 16" wood for Sam Yates from Salem.
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 17
[JAKE] No, I think Doc came to Silverton first, before Dad.
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 94

How to cite this item

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