Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rileysburg, Missouri


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Rileysburg, Missouri

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This does not appear to be a notable location. Ramsay says Many years ago John Riley ran a store "and kept the post office." as the sole description of Rileysburg. This old newspaper article says Mr. Riley was postmaster at his farm, known as Rileysburg, until the post office was discontinued, after which the Rileys opened a grocery store. Snippet view of this calls it a post office.

I will note that I did find a couple instances of people being "from Rileysburg" and a statement that the Rileysburg P.O. served 59 people. However, the (fairly trivial) coverage seems to suggest that the statements of people being from Rileysburg or served by the P.O. reflect Rileysburg being a pre-RFD rural route P.O., especially since there's a newspaper mention stating that the Rileysburg P.O. was discontinued because of a RFD route out of Clark. Hog Farm Talk 03:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Ramsay's source is, which cites the Herald Statesman and an oral history interview with M.G. Proctor, a "former county collector", and says pretty much only that. An 1893 State Gazetteer says "A postoffice in Boone county, 20 miles northwest of Columbia, the judicial seat, and 8 from Sturgeon". There's even less at https://thelibrary.org/lochist/moser/boonepl.html , something that is proving to be true every time that I check it for one of these places coming up at AFD. I haven't turned up any in-depth history.  Uncle G (talk) 06:18, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete This seems to be nothing more than the name for a post office.--Rusf10 (talk) 19:02, 9 May 2021 (UTC)


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