Soap Creek Valley · Place

Soap Creek Road

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Soap Creek Road: 18 transcript mentions across 7 records, grouped by who was speaking.

road Tour map key I Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Also printed as: SOAP CREEK ROAD

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 18

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: 44.66574, -123.27559
How they were found: coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; 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. 79
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 25, p. 36, p. 39, p. 48, p. 52
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 64, p. 65, p. 66, p. 67
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 27
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 7, p. 8, p. 15
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 21
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 9, p. 124, p. 187

In their words

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

The store was over by the north side of the tram road approximately 800' due east of the Soap Creek Road.

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes, #14 Charles and Norman Hindes , p. 48

The house had been the Modrell home located roughly half way between the McCoy farm home and that of Elmer Govier on the west side of Soap Creek road.

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes, #14 Charles and Norman Hindes , p. viii

Dated statements about this place

1989-12-28 — This interview was recorded in her home on Soap Creek Road during the afternoon of December 28, 1989 (the date printed on the cover is in error). Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

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