Soap Creek Valley · Place

Summit

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Summit: 12 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 12

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: 44.63790, -123.57872
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

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 25
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 6, p. 28, p. 33, p. 97, p. 100, p. 146, p. 169, p. 170, p. 171
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 5, p. 82

In their words

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

And I bought a little house for him right over here at the Y [Summit intersection between Blodgett, Eddyville and Hoskins], and moved him out here.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 100

He had a mill 2-1/2 miles north of Summit.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 169

Dated statements about this place

1929 — In 1929 a young fellow started a school bus from Summit to Philomath for high school kids but he drove it into the garage where he got it and disappeared when there was 3 months left of school. Charlie Olson · source · 1921–1940
1990-06-16 — The second interview with Charlie Olson took place in his home, near Summit in Lincoln County, Oregon on June 16, 1990. 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: Summit (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Summit. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/summit/
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/summit/

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