Talk:List of populated places in Colorado: A–F

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Requested move 31 August 2022



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Moved as proposed. BD2412 T 03:32, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

– List of populated places in Colorado (L–Z) was recently moved to List of populated places in Colorado/02, but use of backslashes for split lists is deprecated due to subpages not being allowed in mainspace. The parent list was never moved to a new name to reflect it is a partial list when the original split was made in 2021. These pages should be moved per the recommended format at WP:NCSPLITLIST. The base name can either be left as a redirect to the first list in the sequence (A–K) or can be made into a parent page linking to each, consistent with the guidance at Manual_of_Style/Glossaries (see also some discussion on the issue). Mdewman6 (talk) 00:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * List of populated places in Colorado → List of populated places in Colorado: A–K
 * List of populated places in Colorado/02 → List of populated places in Colorado: L–Z
 * Move: I concur. I can make these two moves if no one objects. Please close this request by September 6, 2022. Thank you, Buaidh  talk e-mail 07:51, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Per WP:RMCI, the discussion must be closed and the moves performed by an uninvolved editor. Mdewman6 (talk) 21:41, 31 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Support Do not use subpages.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 11:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Reorganization of this list
This is the first sublist of the extended List of populated places in Colorado. The extended list is composed of the following four parts: Yours aye, Buaidh  talk e-mail 14:29, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * REDIRECT List of populated places in Colorado
 * List of populated places in Colorado: A–F
 * List of populated places in Colorado: G–O
 * List of populated places in Colorado: P–Z

Adna
, which source describes Adna as an unincorporated community? Its article was deleted in 2020 because it was thought to only be a rail siding, and Place names of Colorado labels it as a "station". I don't see it listed at List of post offices in Colorado either. Is there something that I'm missing? –dlthewave ☎ 15:28, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Adna is a railroad crossing, but if you look at this topo map, there appears to be a small community surrounding it. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk e-mail 19:00, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I do see a few dispersed buildings in the area, but you can't just point to the map and say "this is an unincorporated community called Adna" without reliable sourcing to support it. –dlthewave ☎ 19:05, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The GNIS says that Adna is a populated place, so if you have a more authoritative reference that says that it is neither an unincorporated community nor a ghost town, we can delete it. Otherwise, it stays. I've found the GNIS to be very reliable with some of the concerns I've noted in Help:Elevation. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk e-mail
 * Per this discussion, GNIS is reliable for name and coordinates but unreliable for "feature class" designations ("populated place" etc) due to the high number of errors that are not being corrected. This certainly has the appearance of yet another railroad siding mislabeled as a populated place, and the practice has been to remove these if better sourcing cannot be found. –dlthewave ☎ 20:31, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree completely with Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_357, however, that discussion is about the creation of articles based solely upon the Geographic Names Information System. I have personally found no GNIS populated places that were mislabeled. (See the discussion.) I think many editors (including you) confuse the GNIS populated place label with a currently populated place. As long as at one or more persons resided at a location once upon a time, it can be considered a populated place. See the  discussion. However, you are correct that no single reference populated place should be labeled as an unincorporated community. Therefore I will label any GNIS populated place without another reference as a  . I would appreciate your help in this endeavour. Thank you,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 21:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Geographic Names Information System
Anyone who disagrees with data listed in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) should contact the United States Board on Geographic Names at BGNexec@usgs.gov. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk e-mail 19:47, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Each location and elevation in this list includes the location and elevation reference source in the location code, e.g., . Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 20:11, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Section house
Early railroads established section houses for housing maintenance crews at intervals of approximately 6 mi. Sometimes an extended community would develop around the section house. Most section houses were eventually abandoned, thus creating an extinct populated place. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk e-mail 20:30, 20 November 2023 (UTC)