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Talk:Wilton, Alabama

message: I did some searches in Newspapers dot com and found the first reference to Birmingham Junction in the 29 Apr 1890 edition of The Birmingham Daily News (page 1). It references the first run of a train from Birmingham Junction to the Cahaba River, a train operated by the Briarfield, Blocton and Birmingham Railroad. The junction was soon listed regularly in the published train schedules in newspapers of the mid 1890s.
The 17 Feb 1883 edition of The Jacksonville Republican (page 2) outlines the future development of the railroad through the area. References to reaching Briarfield and the Cahaba River are strong indicators of the eventual building of the railroad that passed through the junction. See A New Coal Road From Birmingham to Selma and Mobile.
There were newspapers in 17 Nov 1945 and 19 Aug 1948 that cited land transfers that pointedly referred to Wilton as formerly named Birmingham Junction. But I found an article in the 28 Aug 1931 edition of The Birmingham News that discussed the history of Wilton as if it had existed since a few years after the War of 1812, when soldiers settled the place across from a settlement of native Americans. See Wilton Was Founded After New Orleans Battle by Jackson Soldiers: Town Resembles English Village, by Frank Wills Barnett. 
There were so many references to carpets made with Wilton wools in newspapers of the day that it was difficult to search for the current article's referenced name changes from Birmingham Junction to Bismarck to Wilton, or the town's founding as Wilton in 1918. I assess these items to be incorrect based on my review of newspapers, but someone with local sources might find out more than this editor from New Jersey. I am not editing the current article.
I launched this study because I have a death record for a family tree that cites Birmingham Junction as the deceased's place of birth in 1944. Of course the death certificate was created many years after the fact, so it cannot be used here as evidence, and the place of birth regrettably remains unclear even after all my diggings. At some point perhaps someone will augment this tiny article with some of the town's interesting history based , in some small part, on the above sources. For now, I document that research here for a future editor. Pnoble805 (talk) 23:25, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birmingham Junction and Wilton
Talk:Odenville, Alabama

message: Ok, from my experience, education is not top priority. The schools are horrible. The education is also horrible. I'm changing that sentence to low priority, not top. User:Hunterdude64  —Preceding undated comment added 06:16, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 
Talk:Springville, Alabama

message: I do not like Chris hill 159.235.139.11 (talk) 05:40, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Principal 

message: I like Chris hill he is nice I recmend him 159.235.139.11 (talk) 05:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hdgdgsgshs
Talk:Sylacauga, Alabama

message: 21 is actually a state highway, not a county road. I edited it for correction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_Highway_21  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Einlanzer (talk • contribs) 13:40, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "County Road 21" 

message: How do you pronounce this city's name?  Sil-a-cooga?  Sil-a-cow-ga?  It's probably a dumb question, but it's entirely serious.  Cadwal 05:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounce? 

message: Anyone got any other notables from Sylacauga?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yadafoney (talk • contribs) 19:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  People? 

message: A lot of this page reads like a catalog of local businesses as well as boosterism for the local marble trade.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.232.85.146 (talk) 04:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  People? 

message: The third photo in the image gallery at the bottom of the page is the Isabell Comer Museum, Not the B.B.Comer memorial Library as the Caption States.This can be easily verified by looking at the Engravings above the Building's entrance in the photo. However the white statue in the foreground was moved from the Comer Library in the mid 2000's when the library was renovated and expanded  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.106.70.119 (talk) 17:52, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third Photo In Gallery is Museum not Library 
Talk:Talladega, Alabama

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. City Entry?
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I removed Ricky Bobby reference... after watching movie, I'm pretty sure he's from North Carolina somewhere
pkomma 02:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I was born in Talladega and both my parents are from Talladega, and we always pronounced it tallaDIGah, but I think the more correct Indian pronounciation is tallaDAYgah.
I don't know who you are,but I live in Talladega and it is correctly pronunced,"TallaDIguh".
I know for a fact,I've bleedin' lived 'ere since 1997!--Xterra1 19:28, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 2 

message: There's another landmark here in Talladega-the Presbyterian Home for Children. There's another one in North Carolina,but this is the original one. It is a landmark of Dega's history. Surely it deserves an article.--Xterra1 19:31, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the Presbyterian Home? 

message: I accidentally deleted the last digit of Smith Vance's birthdate, in  Famous Taledegans.  For some reason I can't access Edit History, so I don't know what I deleted.  I'll try Google.
---Ragityman---69.171.178.25 (talk) 17:36, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Li'l Help
Talk:Jackson's Gap, Alabama

message: A decorative city limit sign on US 280 west says Jackson's Gap:  (an older state-posted green sign at Jackson's Gap Way says JACKSONS GAP) The post office says Jackson's Gap:  A 1996 lawsuit says Jackson's Gap:  The Encyclopedia of Alabama says Jackson's Gap:  --NE2 22:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  correct name is Jackson's Gap 
Talk:Coker, Alabama

message: since no one really views and check this information is updating, information such as mayor or city council should not be added, Why I deleted the whole section. Giovanni138 (talk) 16:56, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  government: needs update
Talk:Carbon Hill, Alabama

message: I removed the image from the info box on this page. I think that showing a photo of a trailer park after a Tornado is in bad taste for the main photo for this article... It would be better suited in the body of the article whit a paragraph about the tornado damage seen in the picture. Dreammaker182 (talk) 18:39, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info Box Photo... 

message: If anyone has any info, please post the references here so that others can put them in the article. Or put them in the article yourself. I can't find anything with a quick search.
OK, with more searching I found a reference for the mayor, Mark Chambers. He is Republican:
*Mark Chambers - BamaPolitics.com
Any party info on the rest of city council? -- Timeshifter (talk) 14:34, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the Republican/Democrat/etc. breakdown of city council and mayor? 

message: Dinosaurs did not appear on the scene until roughly 230 million years ago.  Thus, dinosaurs could not have "roamed" Carbon Hill at that time.  Also, I think it was underwater.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.115.172.134 (talk) 19:39, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've restored the archived ref that made the location claim; nothing in there about dinosaurs in that period that I could see. Kuru (talk) 22:50, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dinosaurs
Talk:Cordova, Alabama

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. City Entry?
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It says Alabama, but the map shows Alaska
Map is removed. coords are correct. JodyB 23:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Nauvoo, Alabama

message: (copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement)
Does Nauvoo, Alabama have any historical ties to Nauvoo, Illinois?  It seems like a rather unusual name for it not to.  I see that both started out in respective Hancock Counties. I also see that Winston County, Alabama (formerly Hancock) refused to join the Confederacy, which made me wonder whether it contrasts demographically with the surrounding counties. -- Beland 03:40, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well -- interesting little question.  I didn't know, but this link says the town was renamed after Nauvoo, Illinois.    But it doesn't say why.  Maybe more research is in order.  WBardwin 04:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Research question
Talk:Parrish, Alabama

message: how about a controversy about the new york poop train?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.184.96.163 (talk) 07:55, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  poop train
Talk:McIntosh, Alabama

message: http://censusviewer.com/city/AL/mcintosh/2010
4.20% American Indian doesn't seem like a high proportion to me.  But I know the census bureau sometimes make mistakes.  I use this as evidence http://globegazette.com/news/census-error-helps-town-become-iowa-s-fastest-growing-city/article_59e72ac0-716b-5013-836e-640655703c0e.html.  Anyway, I would put the information, but if someone can offer cited sources that it is wrong, add it in the article Adam (talk) 05:33, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Information is out of date

message: Again, don't always trust the numbers, this says only 1.23% was American Indian or Alaska Native at the time.  Again, I am not saying the article here is wrong.  http://censusviewer.com/city/AL/mcintosh/2000 Adam (talk) 05:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: It seems the 2,000 census data is inaccurate anyway
Talk:Double Springs, Alabama

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Double Springs is home to Bo Steele and Ben Rubino. Two of the world's most talented musicians. SteeleandRubino.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.206.21.209 (talk) 05:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

message: *Information on how Double Springs got its name seems to be lacking. Donnanz (talk) 21:13, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing info
Talk:Akutan, Alaska

message: This article is a very rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree.  I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community, at which point I will come back through and start editing.  If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back.  Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards (or at least, as well as can be done for Alaska's unique villages and towns).  Thanks!!  —akghetto talk 12:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of Article 
Talk:Adak, Alaska

message: This article says: "Adak Airport has no control tower", Adak Island article says: "Adak Airport has a control tower", Adak Airport article doesn't even mention a tower. So does it have a tower or not?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.71.101.166 (talk) 07:30, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is a very rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree.  I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community, at which point I will come back through and start editing.  If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back.  Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards (or at least, as well as can be done for Alaska's unique villages and towns).  Thanks!!  —akghetto (talk) 06:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of Article 

message: ... the giNORmous population drop between the 1990 and 2000 census?  That cries out "there's a story here".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.223.125.30 (talk) 02:26, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably due to Naval Air Facility Adak's closure in 1997. 189.230.180.250 (talk) 01:58, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone explain ... 

message: As of the timestamp in this signature, both the articles Hyder, Alaska and this one (Adak, Alaska) claim that their subject is the southernmost city in Alaska.  They can't both be the southernmost.  I would say given that Hyder's latitude is 55 degrees north and Adak's latitude is 51 degrees north, Adak has the better claim.--Captain Breakfast (talk) 13:27, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction: southernmost city in Alaska
Talk:Atka, Alaska

message: How seismic ... y is this area? Apparently there has been a M7 quake today and that is pretty large for an area that isn't really used to them. The article mentions nothing about this subject though. Just curious. --Lead holder (talk) 13:03, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seismic activity? 

message: which is it? 142.163.195.114 (talk) 14:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  city or village?
Talk:Attu Station, Alaska

message: I find this line very misleading - or just confused-sounding:
"Attu Station is so far east that it's only 55 miles away from the border of Russia."
Now I understand that Attu Station is considered very far "east" in an absolute sense due to it being in the Eastern hemisphere, almost at the 180th meridian. But surely when we're talking about how close a US location is to Russia, the farther west, relative to the rest of the country, the closer? And just because you pass into "the East" on your way to Attu, doesn't mean you're no longer moving west. Of the parts of Alaska west of the 180th, the westernmost is the closest to Russia - not the easternmost. Ethanbb (talk) 03:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  East or west?
Talk:St. George, Alaska

message: With a population of only 152 I find it hard to believe this is considered a city. Hamlet or village or incorporated place or settlement, yes. If it is an officially chartered city, it must be one of the smallest in the United States which would give it additional notability. 68.146.80.110 (talk) 02:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this really a city?
Talk:Akiachak, Alaska

message: This article is a very rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree.  I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community, at which point I will come back through and start editing.  If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back.  Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards (or at least, as well as can be done for Alaska's unique villages and towns).  Thanks!!  —akghetto talk 07:27, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of article

message: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/when-a-woman-is-raped-in-rural-alaska-does-anyone-care
http://kyuk.org/former-akiachak-teacher-reports-sexual-assault-harassment-in-lawsuit/
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/01/25/former-akiachak-teacher-reports-sexual-assault-harassment-in-lawsuit/
 2602:30A:C7D4:9380:129A:DDFF:FE4A:7BE (talk) 23:23, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Ahem....
Talk:Akiak, Alaska

message: This article is a very rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree.  I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community, at which point I will come back through and start editing.  If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back.  Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards (or at least, as well as can be done for Alaska's unique villages and towns).  Thanks!!  —akghetto talk 07:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of Article

message: It even bloody links to it! http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Akiak --81.153.57.98 (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is just a ripoff of a goverment website
Talk:Aniak, Alaska

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. City Entry?
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How is it that Semen Lukin discovered Gold around Aniak in 1932 when it is also reported that a man of the same name operated a post called Lukin's Odinochka on the Kuskokwim river in 1839 (see http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=94) and traveled the Kukskokwim River with Laventiy Zagoskin in 1842 (see http://vilda.alaska.edu/site-templates/timeline.html)? His age would have been more then 100. --Feyer 15:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the USGS data for this area at http://ardf.wr.usgs.gov/ardf_data/RussianMission.pdf and there is no mention of gold deposits near Aniak nor does it mention Semen Lukin making any discoveries. I will note this reference as unfounded. --Feyer 02:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I may have found the problem, albeit in an obscure place. The Aniak Airport master plan includes a community history, and says Semen Lukin found gold in 1832, which would make more sense. The DCED history could have just had a typo in it, which then propagated over the Internet through being in this article. (Of course, the above link itself could be the mistake, too) —Zero Gravitas 03:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would also, if true, explain the lack of USGS info; they were in no position to know what was going on in Russian America in 1832. —Zero Gravitas 03:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe - but, the USGS data is very comprehensive, and typically if someone is "credited" with discovery of gold in Alaska, it is the USGS who does the crediting.--Feyer 03:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Crooked Creek, Alaska

message: Any sources for that information/paragraph?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.177.238.69 (talk) 20:27, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Plumbing & Honey Buckets
Talk:Goodnews Bay, Alaska

message: Since this article is nothing more than a parroting of Census Bureau data, it may help to mention that the 1960 and 1970 Censuses refer to the community as Mumtrak.  There is a footnote in the 1970 data stating that Mumtrak is actually Goodnews (not Goodnews Bay, but all the same place nonetheless).RadioKAOS (talk) 03:32, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Kasigluk, Alaska

message: I added a section about the windmills in Kasigluk.  I'm a big fan of wind power, so if it sounds too much like I'm shilling for Big Wind, let me know how you would rephrase it.  Still, I think it's noteworthy; it's become one of the village's defining features, and has gotten the attention of the energy media ( by which I mean both the electric utility industry and alternative-energy advocates) Akbeancounter 23:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Windmills
Talk:Kongiganak, Alaska

message: * Regarding this edit  which tagged the census sources as not supporting the population numbers, :
* I am sure this was done in good faith, but this is a known issue with census information, their website is notoriously difficult to link to with any specificity. (you can link to specific pages, but often when others click the link they get redirected to a main page, it is super annoying) Perhaps this link will work?  it's just search results but backs up the number in the article. I would do so myself, but I was there leading the team that collected and reported the 2020 census data for the village, so I have a COI about what I can't help think of as "my" data. Despite having worked for the bureau, I find their website confusing and difficult to navigate. (these remote villages are some of the very last places to have been counted using paper-and-pencil techniques, due to unreliable internet in these villages. I had to physically connect my laptop to an ehternet cable to even get online, no wiki in the whole village at that time) 
Beeblebrox (talk) 20:28, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page.  Lightoil (talk) 02:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit request
Talk:Kwethluk, Alaska

message: I found a source at epodunk stating that Kwethluk translates to "Bad River," but they say that it's Eskimo.  Given that the Yukon-Kuskokwim area is Yup'ik territory, I find it rather unlikely that Kwethluk is an Eskimo name.  The state's official page on Kwethluk states that the name just means "river," so I'm changing it. Akbeancounter 23:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Lime Village, Alaska

message: Is it really plausible that with a median income of zero, none of the population is below the poverty line?  Richard Pinch 20:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Poverty line

message: The population was actually between 40 and 50 in the 90s and 2000s, as can be seen here:
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/migration/PFDMigrationPlace.xls
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/estimates/data/TotalPopulationBCA_1990to2000.xls  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.177.238.87 (talk • contribs) 
:The issue there is probably to do with census methodology. The census picks one day every ten years as "census day" and tries to record where people live or stay most of the time as of that specific day. This day is usually in April. So, if there are seasonal residents who are only there is summer they wouldn't get counted. I don't know that this is what happened here but it's possible. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:23, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Population
Talk:Nightmute, Alaska

message: Why is this place being described as a city with only 208 people? If it has received a city charter with this few people, I think that should be noted as that would be unusual. 23skidoo 03:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's not at all unusual. Alaska (like many states) doesn't distinguish between "cities", "towns", "villages", "townships", or anything else. All incorporated settlements are "cities". —Zero Gravitas 05:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Expansion: there's no lower limit on incorporation. Kupreanof is, as far as I know, the smallest incorporated city in the state, with a population of 23. And there are similarly small places elsewhere—Ismay, Montana for instance. 208 isn't even interestingly small compared to that. —Zero Gravitas 05:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And since you mentioned it in your original comment, which is being steadily buried under my replies, I've added a note to that effect on the Kupreanof article, with my source. Thanks for getting me thinking about the subject... even if months after you forgot even making the comment! —Zero Gravitas 05:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: City?
Talk:Nunapitchuk, Alaska

message: I added a few things about the village; I had a chance to visit in July and October 2006.  I based it on my personal experience, but since I was able to source it out, I don't think that that counts as first-hand research.  One thing that I left out, but is mentioned at the hovercraft article, is that one of the hovercraft used to access Nunapitchuk is the only such vehicle owned by the USPS; I'm also told that it's the only USPS vehicle that accepts passengers, but I couldn't find an authoritative source to back that up, only a handful of personal web pages.  Also, I believe there's at least one private hovercraft provider , so I'm not sure how long that will be true.  I'm also looking through my photo collection to see if I have any nice shots of Nunapitchuk I can donate. Akbeancounter 23:03, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expanded Article
Talk:Quinhagak, Alaska

message: 7 people living here? Quinhagak --MidnightFlavor (talk) 11:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  7? 