The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:21, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
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In this case it's not so much a case of "label drift" as it is "just stick the name somewhere else." It's a little difficult to sort due to a key gap in topo coverage in the 1930s-'40s, but most topos show Bly as a label for a wye junction and its accompanying sidings some distance to the east of the GNIS location, which explains both the "named by railroad officials" part and the supposed older name of Bly Junction (unattested to by the maps). The junction lies across a map boundary, so the name appears on both sides of the line except on one map which abruptly places it more or less where GNIS has it. This map is supposedly from 1960 but I have to doubt this, based on the style; it looks to me to date from some time before 1950. At any rate, maps that are obviously more recent label the junction and not this spot, which by that point is well within the burgeoning San Bernadino/Riverside/LA megalopolis. Any map that shows buildings in that area shows it to be part of a great swath of inner suburban housing. Bly doesn't seem to be a notable rail spot, and even if it were the name of this neighborhood, which I doubt as well, it's not a settlement in its own right and never has been. Mangoe ( talk) 23:15, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:21, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
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In this case it's not so much a case of "label drift" as it is "just stick the name somewhere else." It's a little difficult to sort due to a key gap in topo coverage in the 1930s-'40s, but most topos show Bly as a label for a wye junction and its accompanying sidings some distance to the east of the GNIS location, which explains both the "named by railroad officials" part and the supposed older name of Bly Junction (unattested to by the maps). The junction lies across a map boundary, so the name appears on both sides of the line except on one map which abruptly places it more or less where GNIS has it. This map is supposedly from 1960 but I have to doubt this, based on the style; it looks to me to date from some time before 1950. At any rate, maps that are obviously more recent label the junction and not this spot, which by that point is well within the burgeoning San Bernadino/Riverside/LA megalopolis. Any map that shows buildings in that area shows it to be part of a great swath of inner suburban housing. Bly doesn't seem to be a notable rail spot, and even if it were the name of this neighborhood, which I doubt as well, it's not a settlement in its own right and never has been. Mangoe ( talk) 23:15, 7 January 2021 (UTC)