Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plumb, Washington

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Plumb, Washington

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Declined PROD. Non-notable location. Per reference 3 (the only source of information that could be found) this was just a rural station with a nearby school and (for a big fat six years) a post office. These features could commonly be found in remote areas during the 19th century and do not amount to a "community", let alone one that is still recognized as such. No other information could be found and satellite view shows just a railroad track with a single farm nearby: [1]. Fails WP:GEOLAND. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 02:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Washington. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 02:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge to some singular article about places in Thurston County that are no longer significant. Jclemens (talk) 08:38, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete In the past, this is "Plumb Station" or "Plumb's Station" and it's a train station. Sometime after about 1960 it became known as "Plumb". I don't know if it's fair to say these are the same thing. Now, on to the assessment. Meany doesn't even mention it, Meany might misclassify but as far as we know his collection of the names and meanings were accurate. It existed at a time when Meany should have picked it up if it was important. Basically if he didn't even bother to call it a town, much less even mention it well... Having gone through the local paper for the time period that the post office existed, There are mentions of the station and the post office. The post office was called Plumb (Remember back then post office names could only be one word). That post office is only mentioned once in regard to it's postmaster. Basically, the area that is the subject of the article is well known as "plumb/plumb's Station" from the late 1890s to sometime in the 1960s. I believe it's a grange district or named rural area. If it's not deleted, I will move it to Plumb Station, Washington because that's it's name.James.folsom (talk) 00:08, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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