Soap Creek Valley · Place

Valsetz

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Valsetz: 7 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Valsetz, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 3
Transcript mentions: 7

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: 44.84037, -123.65872
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

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 33
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 29
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 24, p. 49, p. 91
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 24, p. 151

In their words

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

I've worked a lot of that country west of Valsetz for twenty years.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 24

So that would be like Olympic Peninsula or some of the real wet areas up around Valsetz maybe?

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 33

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

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

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