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Good article1906 Mississippi hurricane has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic star1906 Mississippi hurricane is part of the 1906 Atlantic hurricane season series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 26, 2011Good article nomineeListed
January 17, 2012Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 26, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 1906 Pensacola hurricane ruined 300,000 bales of cotton?
Current status: Good article

Damage total

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  • Pensacola wind damage: $50,000
  • Pensacola rain damage: $100,000
  • Pensacola storm surge damage: $775,000
  • Pensacola shipping damage: $1,000,000
  • Communication systems and trolleys of Pensacola: $20,000
  • Foliage of Pensacola: $50,000
  • Railroads of Pensacola: $125,000
  • Fishing industry of Pensacola: $500,000
  • Navy yard forts within the vicinity of Pensacola: $1,100,000
  • Tides and winds at bays within the vicinity of Pensacola: $130,000
  • Winds and the tide at Apalachicola, Florida: $12,000
  • Winds and rain at Glouding, Florida: $13,000
  • Timber in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties: $40,000
  • Mobile wind damage: $750,000
  • Mobile rain and tide damage: $225,000
  • Mobile boat and vessel damage: $175,000
  • Fort Pickens: $10,000
  • Railroads of Mobile, and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Mobile and Montgomery Branch: $1,500,000
  • Christ Church Cathedral and St. Francis Baptist Church in Mobile damage: $50,000
  • Hotels of Fort Morgan, Alabama: $21,000
  • Port of Fort Morgan: $100,000
  • Southern Supply Company: $100,000
  • New Orleans: $75,000
  • Cotton crop in Mississippi: $12,000,000
  • Hattiesburg, Mississippi wind and rain damage: $300,000
  • Total: $19,211,000

Death total

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  • Pensacola: 35
  • Macon, Mississippi hotel: 2
  • Horn Island lighthouse deaths: 3
  • Sheridan tree death: 1
  • Child in Mobile: 1
  • Fort Morgan, Alabama civilians: 6

Todo

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There seems to be info within the Louisiana hurricane history which would be relevant to this article. FYI. Thegreatdr (talk) 15:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:1906 Pensacola hurricane/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 19:42, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • "landfall between Pensacola and Mobile during the evening of September 27," - Are you sure? The track looks a bit west of Mobile Bay. When I plug in the coordinates in on Google Earth, it showed that the storm likely made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
  • "During the afternoon, the hurricane made landfall between Pensacola and Mobile," - See the previous issue
  • "The southern end of West Main street" - Capitalization error; capital "s" on "street"
  • "down in New Orleans after the hurricane, resulting the loss of contact" - Grammar error; write the word "in" between "resulting" and "the"
I have fixed all of the issues you mentioned. Thanks! HurricaneFan25 20:01, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the wait, I was really busy with the GAN of the 1986 PHS. Well anyway, I will now be passing this article.--12george1 (talk) 20:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name

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Why is it called the Pensacola hurricane if it hit Mississippi? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Eh...nvm, I'll rename it later, Longshore (1998) says 78 deaths in MS. HurricaneFan25 13:21, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]