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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 15:23, 23 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Bunnel, California

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Another railroad spot sourced only to Durham and not shown on any topo I have access to. To help confuse matters, there was a Bunnel Ranch which wasn't near here. With the help of this passage from Myrick's book I got a bit better idea of where it might have been, but the emphasis has to be on "might": there is absolutely nothing along this this stretch of the "Bizz" Johnson Trail (which replaced the railroad) except a pair of bridges, a tunnel, an unnamed camp area, and the Devils Corral trailhead, and then you get to Goumaz, where there is another camp area and nothing else. It's possible the first camp area is where Bummel was, but there's nothing at all there except a smallish cleared area hardly big enough for a house. Anyway, besides locating it on the railroad, Myrick says that a sawmill was established there, but a sawmill is not a town and I can remember as a kid going up into the woods a bit south of where we lived and coming upon a sawmill where we got some lumber or sawdust, with no settlement around it at all. Myrick's passage is also instructive in illustrating how dense named points on the railroad are: there is one every few miles, and one should not assume that there was a station building (or even any buildings at all) at each one, much less a town. Myrick's description is sort-of verified by this passage, except that it says that the mill was eight miles away, which on the scale of things is quite a hike. The only other mention of the spot is in this USDA report on possible water projects. And while it does talk about the spot in a way that makes it clear they are talking about the same place, a precise location isn't given, and nothing about the spot is described. And that's all I found, so I don't think this is a notable rail spot. Mangoe ( talk) 15:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 15:20, 16 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 15:20, 16 July 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete The sources verify that this is a place where logs were dropped off and lumber was picked up but that's about it. It's hard to tell whether the mill was at this spot or somewhere else (were there two different mill locations?) but in any case there's no evidence of a settlement here. – dlthewave ☎ 19:34, 16 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete - This isn't a populated place and I see no evidence it fulfils the WP:GEOLAND criteria. Patiodweller ( talk) 18:33, 17 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete Getting something named on a railroad doesn't ensure notability. As we've seen, much of the named locations are entirely non-notable railroad facilities: stations, sidings, spurs, etc. This one is no exception. Non-notable. Glendoremus ( talk) 23:18, 22 July 2020 (UTC) reply

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