Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eldergrove, Iowa


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 19:08, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Eldergrove, Iowa

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It was and is a farm, once housing a post office. A farm where they once raised shorthorns. That's all I get, and that's what the maps and aerials show. Mangoe (talk) 15:58, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:58, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Polk's 1918 Iowa State Gazetteer lists this as "a discontinued postoffice on Taylor Township". Hancock's 1913 Past and present of Allamakee county, Iowa lists several post offices of Taylor Township, but not this one.  The 1929 Annals of Iowa gives this an entry in a list on page 438 as "In section 8, Taylor Township.  Post office, 1897–03.".   That's the total extent of the available documentation on this, and post offices in Taylor Township, Allamakee County, Iowa really should be part of the history in that article.  The Annals of Iowa isn't even breaking it down that far.  Its list is under the heading of Allamakee County, Iowa.  Uncle G (talk) 17:30, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 22:31, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - no indication that this was an actual populated community. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:48, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Topographic maps (specifically those for Iowa; nearby Wisconsin maps show nothing) show it's been around since 1903; maps since 1983 specify it to a dead-end driveway. Google Maps shows it's on the corner of said driveway (featuring what look like two farms and that's it) and Gronna Drive. Google Maps also doesn't mark Eldergrove as extant unless you specifically set it as a destination, and instead marks all nearby addresses as either Allamakee County or nearby Harper's Ferry. Though there are maybe four other farms in the area, there's nothing to show that Eldergrove is any sort of community. AdoTang (talk) 17:27, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


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