Soap Creek Valley · Place

Yamhill

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Yamhill: 6 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 6

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: 45.34150, -123.18733
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

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 25, p. 29, p. 30, p. 36
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 21
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 82

In their words

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

Born, October 20, 1914 at Yamhill.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 1

What was he doing in Yamhill?

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1903 — Then dad married my mother in 1903 and they lived there on the 40 acres for a while then they sold it and moved down to Yamhill. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1891–1920
1914-10-20 — Born, October 20, 1914 at Yamhill. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1891–1920
1928 — And in 1928 we moved from Yamhill up to Berry Creek, and one of the reasons for it was they wanted to get closer to Oregon State [University]. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1921–1940

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