Talk:Hamilton's Stores (Yellowstone National Park)

Why I added the geocodes the way I did.

This article was tagged with a request for coordinates. However it features multiple sites. Therefore I placed the coordinates for the first, flagship, store at the top of the page. If I can find them, I'll add the codes for the other locations within the article's body, or perhaps in the caption of photographs. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 02:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Why no coordinates for the West Thumb store?

I found a description of where the West Thumb store was, but the markers referred to have changed over time. Specifically roads were moved several times, probably because the previous roads took vehicles onto unstable ground covering lethally hot ground water.

This 1904 map shows how the road then ran right through what is now the boardwalk area.

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/jmt8i4

This 1914 map shows the road moved back as well as the Wylie and Thumb lunch stations, but not clearly enough to deduce geographic coordinates.

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:7h14b295m

This 1956 map clearly shows the path of the road:

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/WY/WY_West%20Thumb_342293_1956_62500_geo.jpg

And if you paste 44.4050, -110.5670 into Google Earth's satellite view, you can clearly see the shadowed line of the old road, which was moved again after 1956. The new road is much further inland and it looks like all traces of the old Lunch station/store and ranger station are gone. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 03:53, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Why I put the map in the infobox

This article is about a chain of stores and none of them are branded with a logo. Since a map was requested, I marked one with the locations I could verify and put that in the infobox as it shows nearly all the store locations. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 04:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)