Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goecken, California


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 09:39, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Goecken, California

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Durham calls it a railroad station named for a local rancher on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Not listed in GNIS. Nothing to indicate a community and a very few mentions regarding a station of that name. Not notable. Glendoremus (talk) 23:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Glendoremus (talk) 23:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Glendoremus (talk) 23:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete A search of 1:24,000 scale USGS historical maps found a lack of any indication of there having ever been a populated place or community at the location specified for Goecken, California. The name Goecken was not even found on these maps. The only map reference to this name that was found is a lone, dead end, country road on current Google maps called Goecken Road. Found a lack of any obvious evidence of notabillity, WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG, and for existence of populated place associated with Goecken, California in either Google Books, JSTOR, the Proquest History Vault, EBSCO History Reference Center, and Google Search. Paul H. (talk) 02:04, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No post office. Confirmed to not be in GNIS.  Alameda County Place Names states that it was a railroad station on the Southern Pacific, so WP:STATION applies.  Searching Newspapers.com for "Goecken in California" and "Goecken Southern Pacific in California" yielded nothing.  However, searching Newspapers.com for "Goecken Western Pacific in California" yields at least one hit indicating that Goecken was a station .  It looks like "Alameda County Place Names" was wrong about which railroad Goecken was on.  Goecken is not a legally recognized locale, so #1 WP:GEOLAND does not apply.  There is only trivial coverage of this railroad station, so it does not meet #2 of WP:GEOLAND. Cxbrx (talk) 03:41, 22 October 2020 (UTC)


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