Talk:Thistle, Utah

Possible Improvements
As a reader, I had two unanswered questions.
 * (1) What was the population of the town before the landslide? The number of buildings?  The area?
 * (2) It is implied town was abandoned because of flooding, not because of being buried by dirt; for example "only a few structures with the upper portions of some buildings remain visible". But the article implies the water has been drained: "...redirect water flow past the landslide area, though a small pond remains".  I have ended up not being sure what happened, and the present state of the town.  Benthatsme (talk) 15:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Irrelevant sentence?
I recommend removing this sentence from the article: "In later years members of the Wasatch Academy climbed local mountains above the town to listen to the wind and watch the trains roaring up and down the canyon." It seems of no consequence to the town, its history or the area that at one time, some students from a boarding school 30 miles to the south listened to the wind in the nearby mountains. Thistle was a decades-old town where people were born, lived, worked and died; a trivial anecdote of a hike by students from a nearby town seems irrelevant. 166.70.16.205 (talk) 18:08, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Thanks for doing that, I removed the sentence from my draft (see below). However, I'm waiting for a book to arrive that I ordered before I release this draft. Thanks. Dave (talk) 05:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Re-write
FYI, I am working on a re-write to this article. As I have more experience with highway articles than ghost towns, I would appreciate the help of someone who knows where to look for old census and demographic information. The draft is at User:Davemeistermoab/sandbox. Thanks in advance. Dave (talk) 04:30, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Done, the new version of the article is now up. 03:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

"Before" pictures?
If anyone can find any pics from before the landslide, I think that would make a good addition. --Doradus (talk) 01:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The two books used as sources do have lots of pre-slide pictures. While some of these are surely public-domain due to age, I'm not a copyright expert and could use some training on what I can and cannot upload without claiming fair use. Also, keep in mind these would probably not result in high quality images with the scan. Dave (talk) 07:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I found a nice photo of Thistle from the L. Tom Perry special collections, which I added to the page. The metadata says "circa 1871"--does that seem right? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 18:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Excellent addition, thank you. There is Flickr user who has a 1982 picture (so just before the landslide) showing both the highway and rail junctions, I also think would be a great addition. I emailed the person asking if they would consider licensing it Creative commons, but they never replied. Frankly this was years ago and I forgot about it, maybe I'll ping again. But thank you, we finally have a pre-landslide pic. Dave (talk) 08:24, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Red circles on the map of Utah county
In the map of Utah county shown in the Railroads section, what are the 2 red circles indicating? Neither the caption in the article, nor the image description give any clues. Kaldari (talk) 05:43, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Interesting, that map was created a couple of years ago, with nobody noticing anything confusing. However, your point is duly noted. I'll add this to the image description. The circle is showing the area enlarged in the inset. The oval in the inset is the location of the landslide dam. Dave (talk) 07:31, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

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