Soap Creek Valley · Place

Smith Peak

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Smith Peak: 27 transcript mentions across 7 records, grouped by who was speaking.

peak Coordinate: sources disagree

Also printed as: Folks Hill · Folks Hill [Smith Peak] · Smith Hill · Smith Peak (Also called: Smith Hill and Folks Hill) · Smith Peak (referred to as "Folks Hill") · Smith Peak [Also called: Smith Hill and Folk Hill]

Index references (printed indexes): 12
Transcript mentions: 27

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: 44.71607, -123.28183
How they were found: coordinate taken as the centre of the township–range–section Bob names
How far to trust it: sources disagree
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. 11
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 123, p. 125, p. 128
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 31
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 1, p. 3, p. 6, p. 12, p. 21, p. 22, p. 29, p. 30
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 6, p. 8, p. 44
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 29, p. 38, p. 64, p. 77, p. 85
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 6, p. 9, p. 112, p. 187, p. 191

In their words

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

By facing to the east from this stop, you can see the crest of the hill called "Smith Peak" by the government land surveyor in 1853.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 9

Dated statements about this place

1852 — This name here on this Peak in the 1852 survey is called Smith Peak. Bob Zybach / Angela Sondenaa · source · 1845–1859
1853 — By facing to the east from this stop, you can see the crest of the hill called "Smith Peak" by the government land surveyor in 1853. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859

How to cite this item

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