Soap Creek Valley · Place

Sweet Home

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Sweet Home: 4 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Sweet Home, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 4

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: 44.39762, -122.73620
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

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 59
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 106
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 30
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 63

In their words

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

George Whitcomb has written me of 960 acres up north of Sweet Home at

Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel, #12 Wanda Marcks Cook , p. 63

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: Sweet Home (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Sweet Home. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/sweet-home/
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/sweet-home/

More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.

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