Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Olympia, Missouri


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The result was no consensus. ‑Scottywong | [spout] || 07:35, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Olympia, Missouri

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State Historical Society suggests a Mr. Hyatt opened a store, and then asked the USPS for authorization for a post office, which was given. The only small-scale topo I can find this on is the 1962 topo, which shows three buildings at the site. I'm trying to get newspapers.com access through WP:LIBRARY, but in the meantime, I'm going by Google Books, which brings up nothing useful for this "populated place." Hog Farm Bacon 14:31, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 14:31, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 14:31, 18 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep The community existed and was deemed worth a post office by the government. See no reason to delete, Wikipedia is not "running out of room". Seems a valid short article and I've added a bit of geographic context. Vsmith (talk) 15:40, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You've said on several of these that "the community existed." How do you know that? Leaving aside that "community" is a problematic rewording of GNIS's "populated place", what we have is a name on a map, and a post office with the same name.Given GNIS's manifest problems with categorizing places, we're left with "there was a post office, which was probably here." Given the history of such post offices, that's not enough evidence for the existence of a "community". Mangoe (talk) 18:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Post offices were established to provide services to the residents of a "community" and often was a part of a "rural" store as travel to some nearby town or city was not an easy task. There are such "communities" still in exitance in rural areas - I know of several still serving their communities within a 20-30 mile drive here in the Ozarks. Back in the 60s I ran a rural milk route collecting milk from farmers and delivering their produce to a receiving station in the county seat. During that time I visited several of those rural store/post offices. These rural "communities" were and are real and Wikipedia should recognize them. Vsmith (talk) 14:45, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * delete I found a 1950-eera aerial which shows that the southeast corner was occupied by farm buildings, and the southwest corner by a building that could be a house or store or who knows what. I'm not finding anything that indicates this was anything beyond yet another 4th class post office. Mangoe (talk) 18:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Appears to have been a small community with ~15 residents or so, but a community regardless. It is a sourced stub, meets GEOLAND with official recognition from the post office. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 18:58, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hi, what I see in newspapers.com is about 12 to 15 mentions for "Olympia, Missouri" in Missouri papers.  They're from the 1919-1926 era & most of them occur in ads from a W.E. Harrison retail store there.  That appears to be the extent of Olympia's heyday, such as it is, not notable as a town then or 100 years later.   --Lockley (talk) 19:56, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence that it meets even minimal requirements for notability. A post office inside of a general store does not constitute "notability". Glendoremus (talk) 16:32, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Valid stub about a rural trading point. If maps tell us that the site dwindled by the 1960s, add "little remains of the original site". That would serve our readers better than deletion.72.49.7.25 (talk) 03:45, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The only reliable evidence we have comes from the State Historical Society of Missouri which calls Olympia a store and a post office installed at the request of the store owner. Comments like "the site dwindled by the 1960s" are pure speculation without any basis in fact. Glendoremus (talk) 18:11, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


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