Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Powers, West Virginia


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The result was delete. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 11:06, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Powers, West Virginia

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Not sure that this is a notable location. Appears on the 1906 topo as what appears to be a single building, but the name is gone by the 1924 one. Not in a 1945 directory of WV place names, which has Power in Brooke County, but not a Power or Powers in Wood Co. County history book has two mentions of "powers", but both as the normal noun form. Found a single reference in a family history book that looks a bit marginal as to reliability that someone was born at Powers in 1829, but I didn't turn up anything else unequivocally relatable to this place. If someone can turn up significant coverage proving that this was a notable community in 1829 or so, I'm willing to withdraw this, but I didn't find anything. Hog Farm Talk 05:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 05:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 05:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * It's not in Leavengood's Arcadia history book Wood County, West Virginia. United States Geological Survey Bulletin issue 216 page 75 clears it up, though.  Bing Maps has a Mount Olive Ridge Road almost to the map pin, and the USGS bulletin says that Mount Olive Church was "A prominent church situated on a high ridge near Powers post-office.".  Both the church and the post office seem to be otherwise lost to history, and this one-sentence article is a definite falsehood.  Uncle G (talk) 09:49, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom, doesn't meet GNG.--Rusf10 (talk) 19:04, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete; another geostub based solely on GNIS entry. Two editors quite skilled with these have failed to turn anything up. Additionally, I've looked up the coordinates on several USGS maps; the 1906 1:62500 quadrangle for Belleville, WV shows a "Powers" next to a couple of houses; the 1924, 1960, and 1994 1:24000 quadrangles for same show nothing whatsoever. I think this one's a meme. jp×g 06:44, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


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