Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egan, Iowa


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 19:10, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Egan, Iowa

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This is yet another rural post office, located at what has been an empty intersection for close to a century if the aerial dates are to be believed. Only other hits are for names. Mangoe (talk) 15:10, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:36, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:36, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Strong Delete. Searches will give you nothing no matter what you do. 👨x🐱 (talk) 16:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:GEOLAND as the only feature of the location was a post office that lasted for 3 years, which neither consitutes a legally recongized community nor a populated unrecognized community. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 18:11, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agree this was likely just a P.O. This from 1918 just calls it a discontinued post office, the Hancock source in the article is only a passing mention that there was a short-lived post office here, newspapers.com in Allamakee County brings up only last names and a place in South Dakota, and searching elsewhere brings up names and passing mentions in lists of post offices. This doesn't seem to have been more than a P.O. and is not notable. Hog Farm Talk 22:33, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I see that Hog Farm has already checked Polk's Gazeteer. For completeness:  That's volume 1 of Hancock, and my research independently turned up James Egan (the postmaster) on page 423 of volume 2, which tells us that this was a family farm in Linton Township, Allamakee County, Iowa, which is the actual enclosing place here (per the very source cited in this article, indeed, which is about Linton Township).  Uncle G (talk) 16:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Linton Township, Allamakee County, Iowa and mention the short-lived PO there. Firsfron of Ronchester  21:29, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 22:32, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agree with statements above RickH86 (talk) 11:40, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


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