Category talk:Former towns in Utah

What qualifies a town to be on this list? I can see how Pickleville and Forest Dale, which were towns that were absorbed by other towns should be here, but why Bothwell and the others? How does a former town differ from a ghost town? Should Keetley and Hailstone be on this list, since they are now underwater? GreenGlass^(talk) 23:55, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Two levels up in the cat hierarchy we have Category:Former municipalities in the United States, which explains they used to be incorporated but no longer are. Personally, I think these should be differentiated from Category:Ghost towns in Utah, which basically no longer have population. I'm still not sure where Yost, Utah belongs. Ntsimp (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that makes sense, thanks. Does Yost still have any population other than a house or two? I've never been out there, but from Google Earth it doesn't look very populated. What was your source for Bothwell being incorporated at one time? I've looked for sources to fill out that article and usually come up lacking. GreenGlass^(talk) 21:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About Yost, that's just what I don't know—who lives there? About the others, I've been checking out previous census data here. It can take a long time to load the big PDFs and scroll to the right page just to look up a few numbers, but I've found some interesting info. Footnotes in the 1940 report show that dozens of Utah towns were incorporated in the 1930s (probably to qualify for New Deal aid), including Bothwell in 1937. Bothwell still shows as a town in the 1960 census, but not at all in 1970, so it must have disincorporated in the 1960s. Ntsimp (talk) 15:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Further about Bothwell, according to this entry at the Utah State Archives, it looks like Bothwell was disincorporated in 1967. Ntsimp (talk) 17:57, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]