Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/City of La Harpe Township, Allen County, Kansas


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The result was Delete all. JERRY talk contribs 23:27, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

City of La Harpe Township, Allen County, Kansas

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Many townships such as this exist in Iowa, where many cities are coterminous with their townships, but Kansas law states that many cities are independent of their townships altogether. I can find no proof that this township exists; Google reveals nothing but Wikipedia and mirrors, and of the external links on the bottom of the page, one does not list this township, and the other goes to a nonexistent page. It's not even listed in the GNIS database, which includes townships among its 2,000,000+ entries. Obviously it's not a hoax; I think this is a well-meant accident. Nyttend (talk) 16:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages for identical reasons:

The only difference between these and La Harpe is that the city-data links work, but if you look at them you'll see that they're to much larger townships: Humboldt is 25.2 mi², and Iola is 44.0 mi², but the City of townships are 1.43 mi² and 4.22 mi² respectively. Nyttend (talk) 16:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete if they fail WP:V. I can't find any usage like this in reliable sources, and we already have La Harpe, Kansas, Iola, Kansas and Humboldt, Kansas. They don't seem like duplicates, but as you say, a well-intentioned accident. --Dhartung | Talk 18:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all These are not townships but municipalities independent of any township. While they are categorized as a county subdivision (i.e. an MCD equivalent), they are not townships. The technical term is "independent place". This is analogous to the case of cities in Virginia which are not part of any county but on the same geographic level as counties. We wouldn't call these Virginia cities as counties. nor would we create separate articles for the city and "county". Furthermore, everything in these "township" articles is already in the city articles. --Polaron | Talk 02:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


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