Soap Creek Valley · Place

Tillamook Burn

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Tillamook Burn: 8 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

burn No coordinate

Also printed as: Tillamook Burn (Tillamook fires of 1933, '39, and '45)

Index references (printed indexes): 6
Transcript mentions: 8

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.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

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. 29, p. 56, p. 57, p. 60, p. 62, p. 63
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 53
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 14

In their words

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

Douglas Gilliam poses next to his log truck in the Tillamook Burn, c.

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes, #14 Charles and Norman Hindes , p. 56

Okay, say Don, one thing that came to mind, when you were doing rodent control, did you work with any of the rodents in the Tillamook Burn, in their reforestation program?

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 53

Dated statements about this place

1936 — Douglas Gilliam poses next to his log truck in the Tillamook Burn, c. 1936. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1942 — These 1942 photographs show him topping and rigging a 235 foot tall spar tree in the Tillamook Burn. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1941–1950
1950 — Cedar log salvaged from the Tillamook Burn in 1950. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1941–1950
1953 — Charles Hindes poses with a big log salvaged from the Tillamook Burn along the Miami River, Tillamook county, Oregon, in 1953. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1951–1970

How to cite this item

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