Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neponset, California


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 00:02, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Neponset, California

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In the end, this does turn out to be an isolated station/siding, but not before going through a mess of topos on which the name "Neponset" moves up and down the rail line a considerable distance. Somewhat later topos show a siding and a single buildings which would appear to be the passenger shelter I found mention of in the only legitimate GHit that turned up. That spot is bare on other maps and on aerials, at least until Dole/Del Monte showed up and plonked a processing plant there. Some earlier maps prefer to label a group of buildings a little to the south, but I found one aerial that showed these to be a pair of farms, the buildings of which were wiped out by highway construction. As I mentioned earlier, Google was worthless, with all hits being either for the Mass. town or for one or more steamships, except for a bunch having to do with earthquake subsidence or the like which only name-dropped it as a locale. No evidence that this was a town. Mangoe (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Delete - Looked at the Internet Archive, Goggle Scholar, Google Search, JSTOR, Google Books, and so forth and found a lack of anything substantial for Neponset, California. Like Mangoe, I found a number of references to Massachusetts, e.g. Neponset, Massachusetts; Neponset River estuary; Neponset Reservoir; and Neponset Valley basin, along with the steamships and earthquake subsidence. Did find a "Neponset California Mining Company". However, it is named for an incorporated, organized group of California Gold Rush propsectors from Neponset, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia entry has generated a blizzard of clickbait that is hard to winnow out. Still, there is a notable lack of any reliable source about it ever having been a populated place / settlement or a locale of any signifcance. 02:15, 10 February 2021 (UTC)Paul H. (talk)
 * Delete No evidence it was a settlement. A nice summary of its history on this blog. If someone wants to start an article on the community of Martin apparently located to the West and which this station supposedly served under a former name, they can start over.Pontificalibus 10:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


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