Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thompson Corner, Iowa


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The result was redirect to Lafayette Township, Allamakee County, Iowa.  JGHowes   talk  01:43, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Thompson Corner, Iowa

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The east end of Elon Drive, at which intersection was (at least since 1940) and is a pair of farms, the ancestor of one presumably housing the eponymous Mr. Thompson. Clearly not a town. Mangoe (talk) 18:08, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:39, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:16, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - The non-GNIS source is a passing mention stating that Mr. Thompson settled at what became Thompson Corner. Newspapers.com brings up fairly little, mainly names of roads and a few references to "the Thompson corner". USGS's Iowa Geographic Names from the 1980s calls it a locale (geography) No results in 1880s county history.  Willing to revisit if additional evidence appears, but I'm not seeing an indication that this is a notable location. Hog Farm Talk 22:24, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hancock's 1913 Past and Present of Allamakee County, Iowa says "the house at Thompson's Corners", singular, was the only other one between Lansing and some homestead 10 miles away. The history books actually tell us that there was no "unincorporated community" there.  M. Thompson's house is otherwise not documented in detail by history, so there isn't a possibility of refactoring here, as there sometimes is for rubbish "unincorporated community" articles.  Uncle G (talk) 15:04, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 22:29, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lafayette Township, Allamakee County, Iowa. No source that I can find lists this as a town; not even a hamlet. 1886 plat maps don't show it, 1917 plat maps don't show it, and 1950s plat maps don't show it. One of the best sources for these turn-of-the-century Iowa hamlets is Cram's Modern Atlas (1902), which lists hamlets down to the single digits, but there's no entry for Thompson's Corners/Thompsons Corner. There's a brief mention of a church at Thompson's Corners in the above-mentioned 1913 book (on page 281), but a cabin and a church a community do not make. This appears to have been a locality and not really a community, and never was a community, as far as I can find. Firsfron of Ronchester  18:05, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Agree with Firsfron of Ronchester RickH86 (talk) 11:29, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


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