Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Story, Missouri


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The result was delete. Tone 05:43, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Story, Missouri

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Not an extinct town like the article claims, not a populated place like GNIS claims, does not pass WP:GEOLAND, does not pass WP:GNG. It's an old rural post office, see the State Historical Society which calls it "Story Post Office". Google maps doesn't seem to know where Story is, although a query for "Story Post Office" takes me to a hayfield. Not on the 1938 topo. Not on the 1886 topo. I find the latter telling, as the only places in the immediate area marked on the 1886 topo are Roscoe, Lebeck, and Oyer. I haven't looked into Oyer, but Roscoe is a recognized village, and Lebeck seems to have been an actual populated place, which suggests that the others that should have been on the 1886 topo are spurious GNIS entries of non-communities. Fairly clearly just a post office. GNIS is good for determining that something with a given name was located at an exact point; however, GNIS is not reliable for indicating what that something was. Hog Farm Bacon 00:41, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 00:41, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 00:41, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete The only newspapers.com result I found was the appointment of a fourth-class postmaster and a couple people with the last name Story. Reywas92Talk 14:26, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * delete So I see the same results in old topos, but in the most modern ones (where things got copied onto the map from GNIS) there is a a notation I've never seen before: a "PO" mark. It's in a box on one and an oval on another. The only way I can interpret this is that whoever put the notation on realized that they were recording a post office and not a town. In any case, this is another which comes from a large scale non-USGS map of the state, which has proven problematic before. I see no evidence of a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 13:44, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


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