Soap Creek Valley · Place

Writsmans Hill

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Writsmans Hill: 20 transcript mentions across 5 records, grouped by who was speaking.

hill Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: Writsman Hill · Writsman's Butte · Writsmans Hill [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 5
Transcript mentions: 20

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: 44.68711, -123.26149
How they were found: coordinate taken as the centre of the township–range–section Bob names
How far to trust it: inferred
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. 123, p. 124, p. 125
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 26, p. 117
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 27, p. 28, p. 77
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 34
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 6, p. 9, p. 98, p. 107, p. 113, p. 115, p. 146, p. 182, p. 187, p. 191, p. 319

In their words

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

So we just called it the Wiles or Writsman Hill.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 27

Supposed to be the Writsman Hill, but who actually owned it I don't know.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 27

Dated statements about this place

1905 — Glender fields, c. 1905. Named hills in background include Writsmans Hill and Forest Peak. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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