Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bowman, West Virginia

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 10:41, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bowman, West Virginia

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Sourcing here is problematic. GNIS can be safely ignored, and Hamill Kenny's source is contradictory here. It calls it a hamlet, but then states A Mr. Bowman once owned a farm at this point, and that the people thereabouts still occasionally call it Bowman. But strictly speaking [...] there is no such place cited to a member of the local historical society. Topos show two buildings along the railroad tracks.

Searching brings up a lot of noise, especially references to the Bowmans of Brooke County, but I'm not seeing much to suggest this was a notable community, and I'm inclined to put more weight in Kenny's longer description calling this Mr. Bowman's farm. Hog Farm _Talk 03:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 03:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 03:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was definitely a farm. A 1907 report states the Carter Oil Company to have drilled for oil there, alongside other companies in neighbouring farms (Carmichael, Underwood). This matches "oil well" on the topographic maps. Bowman No 1 is not a notable oil well. Nor was it a notable farm, that I can find. Uncle G (talk) 01:30, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Grimsley, George Perry (1907). Ohio, Brooke and Hancock Counties. County reports and maps. Vol. 1. Wheeling News Litho. Company. p. 258.

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