Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cornland, Missouri

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The result was delete. Sandstein 11:13, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cornland, Missouri

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While the State Historical Society isn't clear what Cornland is, it's not on the pre-GNIS small-scale topos, with the exception of the 1937 one for New Home, Missouri, which labels Cornland as an isolated country school. The GNIS entry is sourced to a map of country schools. The only useful Google books hit I could find with this is a vague 1935 government report that stated "there is no longer a store at Cornland." All other hits are passing mentions or apparently for Cornland, Illinois. Whatever this was, it doesn't appear to be a notable community. Hog Farm _Bacon 00:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 00:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 00:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

delete GNIS's compilers never cease, it appears, to come up with new questionable sources of input, in this case, "Missouri Rural School Maps (rural schools named and located on county highway maps of the Missouri Department of Highways)". The problem in this case is that someone appears to have looked at the topo in the first phase, saw a single building labelled "Cornland School", and abjured entry of it. But I have to think (not being able to see the map in question readily) that a map of schools neglected to put the word "School" next to "Cornland" (it being, after all, a map of schools), and thus someone else saw just the word "Cornland" and stuck it in GNIS as a "pop. place". This is of course supposition, but I have to maintain that a map of school buildings isn't a map of village/towns/"communities" unless we can see otherwise. Mangoe (talk) 19:19, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep community was large enough to accommodate a store and school. An editor who cares, instead of deleting, might add to the stub: "little remains of the original town site". All jokes aside, the fate of a valid stub shouldn't ride on the nominator's ability to google correctly. 72.49.7.25 (talk) 03:24, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- So you don't think I care? Or that I can't Google? I put more effort into this nomination than it took to write this article, probably. Hog Farm _Bacon 03:29, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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