Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guernsey, Indiana


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The result was redirect to Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana. Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Guernsey, Indiana

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Yet another apparent case of a rail stop/post office elevated through GNIS to a "populated place" and thence to a "community" through WP's authorship. The only "habitation" now is an electrical substation which appears in aerials all the way back into the 1950s; a building which one might take as a station sits next to in that image, but that's it. The cited narrative essentially says nobody ever made a town here. Mangoe (talk) 04:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Shellwood (talk) 09:10, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - One source describes it as a "hamlet", but there's no evidence of legal recognition to meet GEOLAND and insufficient coverage to meet GNG. –dlthewave ☎ 16:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Which source is that?
 * Djflem (talk) 10:39, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
 * page 249. –dlthewave ☎ 05:35, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Honey Creek Township. I always prefer to err on the side of retaining articles if there's even borderline evidence of past or present notability, but in this case I have to admit that Guernsey probably doesn't reach even that: This 1896 map indicates it's just a post office and siding without lots, streets, or any other appurtenances of an actual town. (It also clearly places the PO & siding in Honey Creek instead of Union.) By 1920 it's gone from the maps entirely. Cram's 1888 rail map shows it as a rail station (named "Wright") as does an 1896 map, so it certainly existed, but it seems safe to say that almost nothing else was there. The Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society says that prior to 1950 there was a grain elevator, but photos since show nothing but a railroad crossing. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 20:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * (I've described and cited what little is known of Guernsey in the Honey Creek Township article. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 20:08, 11 September 2022 (UTC))
 * Redirect to Honey Creek Township per work above and NGEO informal places.Djflem (talk) 21:49, 12 September 2022 (UTC)


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