Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard, West Virginia


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  03:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Howard, West Virginia

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Notability here is questionable. Topos show one or two buildings at an isolated crossroads, and even go back to before 1910. Searching brings up History of Marshall County from Forest to Field, which has a passing mention that there was a voting precinct "at Howard". Passing mention of Howard as a fourth-class post office in 1914 and a similar passing mention about the post office being opened in 1888. Searching is difficult due to how common the name Howard is, but a statement that people voted there once in 1925 and two mentions of a fourth-class post office don't seem to indicate that this is a notable place. Hog Farm Talk 03:16, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:16, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:16, 24 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Gannett's 1904 A Gazetteer of West Virginia has "Howard: post village in Marshall County on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway", which would be alright if it weren't evident from the map that there isn't a railway here, the nearest line being 10km away. Either the only source that I can find attesting that there's a village is wrong, in which case there might not even be a village, or this is a different second Howard, and we don't have a source saying that there's a village.  (There is, after all, a Howard Run elsewhere in the county.)  Without that, I can only source a Howard store and post-office "south of Adaline" to a death notice of J. Hoadley Yoho storekeeper and postmaster. Uncle G (talk) 15:44, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


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