Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburg, Utah

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 03:27, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pittsburg, Utah[edit]

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A typical GNIS stub, enlivened by a claim I cannot verify. At any rate, the topos tell an interesting story: up until about 1980, they show "Pittsburg" and a few widely scattered buildings, but from then on they show a loop coming out of the main road to the west that is labelled "Roadside Park", the cluster of buildings moves to the east side of the road, and the "Pittsburg" label is replaced by "Hoovers". The earliest aerial is from the mid 1950s and only shows one building, on the east side; this indeed becomes surrounded by other buildings, but GMaps informs us that these buildings are the Hoover River Resort, which if I read the website correctly started out as that single building shown in the aerial. And there is another wrinkle: on the east side of the river there used to be a D&RGW rail line that was abandoned some time before 1980. "Pittsburg" is a ridiculously common element of railroad names, so I haven't been able to confirm it, but I suspect that the name originally indicated a rail point. At any rate, I haven't been able to confirm a town here. Mangoe (talk) 02:59, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per norm. --Vaco98 (talk) 03:03, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Utah. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 03:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is the location of the property of the erstwhile Pittsburgh-Utah Potash Company founded in 1916, as detailed on Callaghan 1937, p. 126. Handily, on Callaghan 1937, p. 96 there is a map, with the Pittsburgh alunite deposit marked as #10, at the junction of Deer Creek and the Sevier, but in Sevier County rather than Piute County. (Unhelpfully, Google conflates Callaghan 1937 and Vanderwilt 1937, which you'll need to know if you go looking for it.) Gale & Hicks 1917 said:
This company has constructed a railroad spur about 3,600 feet from the main line at Belknap siding to its mill site and has laid a pipe line from the mill site to a dam built on Deer Creek, which gives a 60-foot fall.
Yet another "unincorporated community" falsehood by Wikipedia. Uncle G (talk) 09:04, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Callaghan, Eugene (1937). Preliminary Report on the alunite deposites of the Marysvale region, Utah. Vol. 886. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Vanderwilt, John W. (1937). Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Snowmass Mountain Area, Gunnison County, Colorado. Vol. 884. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Gale, Hoyt S.; Hicks, W. B. (1917). "Miscellaneous developments in Marysvale District". Potash in 1917. Mineral Resources of the United States.
Commment: Looks like it was a mine per local early 20th century newspapers in Piute County. [1] (1918 picnic at the Pittsburg mine). And some people must have lived at the location, which is why GNIS calls it a populated place. That leads to occasional references to someone being from there.[2]--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Location is only notable at the local level, if that. TH1980 (talk) 01:46, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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