Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tingley, Missouri

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The result was delete. Tone 05:46, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tingley, Missouri

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GNIS calls it a "populated place" and a "trading point". State Historical Society suggests it was a country store. Google maps leads me to some woods in the middle of nowhere; I can probably county the number of man-made structure within several miles of the points on both hands. A WP:SPS postal office database cited in the article claims there was a post office there for around eight years around the turn of the 20th century. Sources suggest nothing was there until the late 1890s, so no need to check the 1886 topo. Not on the 1954 topo. GNIS says it should be on the topo map for Wagoner, Missouri, but the 1956 Wagoner topo shows nothing. Next Wagoner topo map is 2011, not on that, either. Results of a Gbooks search: This book has a hit for "Tingley, Missouri" in the index, but it turns out after reading the page that it's a reference to a person named "Missouri Tingley". Found a record that someone supposedly from Tingley bought 8 hogs in 1905, but since the post office was apparently open until 1906, that may just be an indication he got his mail at the office. This looks promising, but is evidently a different place, as that Tingley is supposedly on a railroad between St. Joseph, Missouri and Des Moines, Iowa; this Tingley is nowhere near either of those places. With "trading point" seeming to indicate a store, not a town, nothing really significant coming up in historical sources, and a lack of appearance on topo maps, I think it's safe to say this supposed unincorporated community fails WP:GEOLAND, WP:GNG, and is probably a GNIS error. Hog Farm _Bacon 04:17, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 04:17, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 04:17, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Zero hits in newspapers.com, no evidence it was a notable community. Reywas92^Talk 14:18, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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