Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pushmataha Landing, Mississippi

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The result was no consensus. There is not agreement about whether this was a landing or inhabited place and thus no consensus about notability. No prejudice to a re-nomination. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pushmataha Landing, Mississippi

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It's a landing spot on the river topo but source provided and others [1] do not corroborate claim it's a community, less a notable one, just that it's a...landing. Reywas92^Talk 21:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 21:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mississippi-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 21:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete not a notable place per WP:GEOLAND. Lightburst (talk) 02:51, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The map is peppered with "landings", there's no sign that this one is a community. GNIS, for what it's worth, lists it under the infamous "populated place" catch-all. –dlthewave ☎ 03:42, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The Congressional Record from 1921 refers to Pushmataha Landing, Mississippi, and Pushmataha, Alabama, as "two thriving little towns of splendid progressive people". Pushmataha Landing was located directly on a bend in the Mississippi River until 1942, when the US Army Corps of Engineers cut a more direct route for the river and turned the bend into an oxbow lake called DeSoto Lake, thus removing all commercial traffic from the bend. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:29, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- This calls Pushmataha Landing a landing, though this calls just "Pushmataha" the name of a post office, though distinctly not the name of a "post-hamlet". This mentions a Pushmataha area.
Keep - Site of an 1882 levee break, according to the Boston Globe of 3/11/82, p. 5. The article mentions the estates of three plantation owners that were flooded in the incident. Inhabited place. Carrite (talk) 06:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the clipping. Here's one from later that year seeking worker on this landing and several others. Yes, lots of people did live in this area. See the dozens and dozens of plantations in this 1872 map and this 1904 map that marks the landing in the bottom left, but do not show this as the name of a notable community, but along with several other river landings. Reywas92^Talk 20:01, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, b uidhe 03:12, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:10, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.