Talk:Hot Springs, Nevada
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There are many "Hot Springs, Nevada"[edit]
Nevada has many different places named "Hot Springs". This one is in Eureka County and is not on the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company nor the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad. Also, it is not near Beatty. Cxbrx (talk) 06:42, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- Sigh. The Hot Springs in Nye County is much more likely to be notable than the one in Eureka County, so I'll revert my edits. Cxbrx (talk) 07:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hot Springs, Eureka County, Nevada[edit]
It looks like this page started off as a page about a place called Hot Springs, located in Eureka County, Nevada. The article was based on a Hot Springs ghosttowns.com webpage. The web page makes the following claims:
- The springs were named "White Sulphur Springs"
- The springs were near Mineral Hill.
Looking for "White Sulphur Springs", Elko Hot Springs cites a 1919 mining paper by Blackburn. Looking at the map, Elko Hot Springs is near Hot Hole, which is near Elko, Nevada in Elko County, not Eureka County. There is a webpage about Elko Hot Springs (yes, this is not a WP:RS, but we need to start somewhere) that mentions White Sulphur Hot Springs. So, this evidence suggests that the Hot Springs ghosttowns.com webpage is probably in part about Elko Hot Springs.
- Nevermind, see this October 13, 1871 advertisement. Cxbrx (talk) 19:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Looking for "Mineral Hill" finds a number of locations, all quite far from Elko Hot Springs, such as Mineral Hill Post Office (historical), located in Eureka County. There is a Bruffeys Hot Spring located near Mineral Hill. That could be the place that the Hot Springs ghosttowns.com web page is about.
It would be good to find a citation other than the Hot Springs ghosttowns.com webpage that confirms that this spring near Mineral Hill was also known as White Sulphur Springs.
- Done, see this October 13, 1871 advertisement. Cxbrx (talk) 19:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure if either place that the Hot Springs ghosttowns.com web page could be about are notable. Mineral Hill did have a Post Office, so it could possibly be notable, but that is a different page. Cxbrx (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hot Springs, Nye County, Nevada[edit]
This page is also about a location just north of Beatty, Nevada, currently called Bailey's Hot Springs. The latitude and longitude of this page correspond with Hot Springs, which for better or for worse, the GNIS lists as a populated place. There is a second GNIS entry for the nearby spring Hot Springs, which has variants of Amargosa Hot Springs and Hicks Hot Springs.
The article has two railroad references
- Time Table #7, as Effective Dec. 5, 1907, Tonopah and Goldfield R.R. Co., Bullfrog-Goldfield R.R. Co. and
- L.K. Strouse: Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 119. United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, 1927 (on-line).
that suggest that this Hot Springs in Nye County was on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad.
I'm not sure if this location is notable, WP:STATION applies. There could be an article about Bailey's Hot Springs, but that seems to be the name of a business, not the name of the place. For example, in the U.S., place names rarely have "'s." Cxbrx (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Notability Summary[edit]
This page is about two or possibly three different places, none of which seem particularly notable. Cxbrx (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- I think the right solution is to create a Mineral Hill, Nevada page and place the Eureka County Hot Springs text there. Mineral Hill seems likely to pass a notability test. The Hot Springs, Nevada page can have the Nye County info and probably be removed because it is not notable. Cxbrx (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- I created Mineral Hill, Nevada. Cxbrx (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2020 (UTC)