Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scarlet, West Virginia


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:15, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Scarlet, West Virginia

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This doesn't look like a "populated, legally recognized place" a la WP:GEOLAND. Satellite view for the given coordinates looks like a forest(?) with a roadhouse(?) off to the west. Taking this to AfD rather than prodding as is common for GEOLAND failures because it's an SNG I'm not very confident with, and I'd like to have people who are moreso take a look. Vaticidalprophet 19:05, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)


 * What several books and magazines reveal is that the reason you won't find it today with Google Maps is that it was the stop at the end of the Trace Fork Extension to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which fell into disuse half a century ago in the 1970s. Uncle G (talk) 20:05, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Leaning delete - - Not sure what you found, but nothing I found indicates that indicates there was a community here.  Old topographic maps show a railroad siding with four or five buildings, a mine, and a water tower.  Old newspapers hits refer to the site as having a coal processing plant and a mine waste dumping site, all apparently related to Hobet Mining and Construction Co.'s Mine No. 7.  I haven't seen anything mentioning people living here, though.  From what I found, this was a railroad and mining feature, although I may have missed something.  Willing to reconsider my !vote if significant coverage can be found, but this isn't looking like a WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG pass. Hog Farm Talk 00:26, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * What I found led me to think that it's more probable that the extension to the railway line and the Trace Fork Subdivision is the better subject (c.f. Peninsula Extension), although I didn't look for historical sources on that subject specifically, as this place was documented either in relation to that or in relation to the various "fork" rivers, which one source treated as the Pigeon Creeks, a group including Pigeon Creek itself, Trace Fork, Right Fork, et al.. But this does clarify where to look and what to look for.  Look for something that exists now, and one won't find anything.  Uncle G (talk) 08:30, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * delete Searching is plagued by false hits, a situation not improved by specifically looking for the C&O (especially numerous repetitions of the assertion that Thurmond was "a focus of gambling and scarlet night life"), but I did find one reference that confirmed what topos and older aerials show: there was, for a while, a mine tipple here for loading trains, presumably with coal. The oldest topos show nothing much there, and of course there's nothing there now, so I'm going to have to say this is not a notable location, and was never a settlement of any kind. Mangoe (talk) 21:24, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete A non-notable unincorporated place without any current or past population or significant coverage. Jackattack1597 (talk) 23:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)


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