Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonelli Landing, Arizona

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The result was redirect to Bonelli's Ferry. (non-admin closure) b uidhe 02:34, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bonelli Landing, Arizona

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This is a fairly primitive camping area on Lake Mead; all sources besides GNIS agree on this. And that's it: the park service says that the road used to run down to a ferry across the Colorado, and there's no other info and certainly no claim to a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 15:29, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 15:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 15:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Bonelli's Ferry. According to this Bonelli's Landing was synonymous with Rioville, Nevada. The Bonelli Landing given by the coords in the article could either be a reference to this settlement now flooded following the Hoover dam construction, or to the Arizona side of the ferry. ----Pontificalibus 15:46, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. I agree, this should be merged. I'll let this sit a day or so to see if there are objections, but if not I'll withdraw this and do the merge. Mangoe (talk) 16:15, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, what the maps and aerials show is that the name was applied to where the shore was before the lake started to recede. Right now it is quite a bit inland. One can speculate but since the park service prefers to name its various facilities, it's likely they simply took the name of the ferry as a starting point. Mangoe (talk) 16:21, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - It's highly improbable that there was ever a historic "landing" on a mountain hundreds of feet above the river. Clearly a NPS landmark named after a nearby place that was inundated by the Hoover Dam. No sign that this was ever a notable "populated place". Dlthewave
Redirect per Pontificalibus. Lightburst (talk) 17:29, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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