Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loyd, Missouri


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The result was delete. Tone 06:46, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Loyd, Missouri

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Non-GNIS source calls it a post office active from 1901-1904, where a Mr. Reagan did business in 1903. Topos show a single building with no name; GNIS entry is sourced to an old friend, the "New World War Chart - A Map of Missouri". Newspapers.com brings up a reference to something being "near Loyd" in 1903 and a statement about the appointment of a 4th-class postmaster in 1901. Does not appear in the volume of "How Missouri Counties Towns and Streams Were Named" that covers Bollinger County. Other coverage I found was just appearances in long lists of all post offices in the USA. Doesn't seem to be notable with what I was able to find. Hog Farm Talk 18:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 18:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 18:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete A post office is not the same as a notable community. Reywas92Talk 19:32, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * As I observed at there are a lot of Ramsay Place-Name Card Collection entries yet to come.  The difficulty with Ramsay is exemplified here.  Ramsay's own cited source is, a 1938 thesis about Bollinger county place names.  But that doesn't mention Loyd at all, only having a cemetery by that name.  Hog Farm points out that Ramsay probably should have cited , which supports only as much as the first line of the nomination here, and comes from oral history of one Ralph Dewitt, whoever that is, and a postal guide.  I found Loyd in an index to the 1925 Rand McNally Premier Atlas of the World as "Loyd (Bollinger O 21)", but the note for the index is telling: "Places not on map are followed by county name and index of county in which it is located".  The history books draw a blank, too.  There's no Loyd in Ozark Pioneers (Arcadia Pub, 2001), for example. Uncle G (talk) 08:25, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * https://thelibrary.org/lochist/moser/bollinpl.html has less than what we have here. Uncle G (talk) 06:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)


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