Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larkin's Landing, California

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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:30, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Larkin's Landing, California

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Another one of those Durham-only California geostubs apparently missed during the 2020/2021 cleanup. I suspect the coordinates in the article may be wrong - they're sending me to a place that is marked on a swamp in 1890s maps and is now a salt evaporation pond. Searching on newspapers.com brings up a few references to Mr. Larkin (whose wife was allegedly trying to kill him) living at Larkin's Landing, but nothing significant. This I can only get the snippet view of, but it likewise does not appear to be significant coverage. Searching is difficult because Larkinsville, Alabama was formerly known as Larkin's Landing and was quite significant in the 1800s, and Larkin, California, is also a place, but this one I can find really nothing about - it existed, but doesn't seem to have been overly significant and has become mostly lost to history. Hog Farm _Talk 18:53, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 18:53, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 18:53, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
• Confirm the coordinates are off. By a couple of thousand feet. Currently, the slough ends where it reaches Mowry Avenue at 37.5096, -122.0149. This more likely location for the landing is 1800' to the NE of Larkin's Landing's coordinates.Paleorthid (talk) 22:28, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
  • Update: My salt-pond destination (37.506111, -122.018889) was a one-off error, I could not reproduce. 37.496653, -122.005833 is east shore of Mowry Slough. Makes sense for Larkin's Landing. Paleorthid (talk) 04:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
  • "no telling where it was exactly" Uncle G (talk) 23:53, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
• I couldn't get scope for expansion either.
  • Mosier's 1986 Alameida County Place Names is a paraphrase of the article at hand, and says nothing more.
  • Merritt's 1928 History of Alameda County, California gives this a 1 sentence mention. ("Boats docked at Mayhew Landing and later Jarvis Landing and then Larkin's Landing were established.")
  • The relevant Arcadia Publishing book appears to be ISBN 9780738530055 about Irvington, which has nothing. Checking the Arcadia book about Centreville, ISBN 9780738581774, just in case turns up nothing there either. The same for the Arcadia book about Newark, ISBN 9781467133364.
  • The Arcadia book about Warm Springs, ISBN 9780738596631 has Dixon Landing, California and of course Warm Springs Landing but not this one. The Arcadia book about Milpitas, ISBN 9780738529103 is too far away to be relevant to this article, but indicates that Dixon Landing, California is in the history books.
  • Sandoval's 1985 The History of Washington Township merely lists this in a laundry list of landings ("In addition, there were at one time or another, Horner's Landing, Beard's Landing, Peacock's Landing, Dixon Landing, Larkin's Landing and Barron's Landing.")
• Even less turned up about Stephen Larkin, which could have been a potential refactoring target.

  Uncle G (talk) 23:53, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

• Delete. I couldn't find any more information to expand the article. Not a notable subject. The system of landings along the Alameda County bay coast, as a subject, probably could support an article, their history is interesting. There are articles on Alameda County bay coast landings (Eden Landing, Jarvis Landing (formerly Mayhew Landing), Roberts Landing), including the adjacent Mowry Landing location. Pretty good coverage. Baker, J. E., 1914, Past and Present of Alameda County, California. Volume 1. Excerpt (page 459): "There are numerous landings along the bay coast of Alameda County" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paleorthid (talk • contribs) 2022-03-07T21:35:23 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert, California. We know. ☺ But we're still cleaning up the Durham-dump that gave us Mulford Landing, San Leandro, California and Mulford Gardens, San Leandro, California and Mulford, San Leandro, California as if they were separate things. Uncle G (talk) 23:09, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

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