Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whitton, Illinois


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The result was keep. Academic Challenger (talk) 18:32, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Whitton, Illinois

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GNIS stub with no evidence of notability. Historic aerials and topos show there was never more than a handful of buildings here, and there's no sources available to establish notability. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:43, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:43, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 23:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep "Roland was born on July 10, 1922, the son of George F. and Laura E. (Beckett) Unangst in Whitton, Illinois" . (from what looks like the findings of fact in a legal case - hard to tell the context because of snippet view) "That the branch of petitioner's railroad running between Aurora, Kane County, and the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, passes through and serves an unincorporated community in Hanover Township, Jo Daviess County, known as Whitton; that said community contains a population of approximately 40 persons. . Since Whitton was at one time regarded as a community, and as a place at least one person was from, it passes WP:GEOLAND as a (once-)populated place that is/was recognized as a community. &minus;&minus;&minus; Cactus Jack 🌵 23:17, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per CactusJack. SportingFlyer  T · C  03:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep; I concur with CactusJack. I found other mentions of the community;  and also on a topographic map showing the nearby Hanover Bluff Nature Preserve . It's obvious the place existed as a populated place. Not that these are usable sources for the article, but they do point to the existence of the place sufficient for WP:GEOLAND. It never was much of a place in terms of population, and its unlikely we'll ever get a more thorough article than this, but it certainly did exist and was a populated place. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:06, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep May have been a tiny community but still counts, meets GEOLAND. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 15:51, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep for now, because of the obituary and case citation indicating a population, cited by Cactus Jack. I'd be interested in knowing whether this existed before the Savanna Army Depot; from the Hanover Bluff topo map (cited by Hammersoft) it appears that Whitton was basically a railroad crossing just outside of the Savanna Army Depot boundary.  (Though someone claiming seriously to be "from" there is a good indicator of a real settlement, it wouldn't be appropriate to make "at least one person was from" to be an outright WP:GEOLAND criteria on its own; by that criteria, Griffiths Mobile Home Park IL to the northeast would be notable.  A lot of these U.S. names come from the U.S. topographic maps via the Geographic Names Information System tagged as populated places, which doesn't make a distinction between types of settlements, and considered railroad stops to be settlements as well.  HomeTownLocator is an example of a "source" that is just an automated page about each GNIS entry.  We could find someone "from" the trailer park very quickly in theory, since there are still 9 trailers there.) --Closeapple (talk) 17:27, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Of note; I did try to search census records from the early 1900s, presuming there was population to be reported. I ran into problems with spellings of the name, and conflicts with similarly named places (ex; Wheaton, Illinois). My search was inconclusive. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:16, 20 June 2020 (UTC)


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