Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Long Valley, Lassen County, California

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Long Valley, Lassen County, California

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Another leftover from a failed group nom, this was synthesized from Durham and a couple of other sources, neither of which testifies to a town by this name. I was able to "verify" the post office against Jim Forte's site, which is technically self-published but which we have never run into cause for doubting; he gives its dates as 1869-1912, for what that's worth. There's no GNIS entry for it and I haven't seen any sign of it on topos, and I cannot work out where the coordinates came from. The part about the "Beckwourth Trail" refers to the valley, not a town, so it's irrelevant. Someone who has a copy of Durham may be able to shed more light on this but the most reasonable guess is that there was a post office set up at the saw mill. That's not the same as a notable settlement. Mangoe (talk) 02:38, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and California. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:22, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There was never a settlement called "Long Valley" it was a valley, and there were settlements in it. They were not called "Long Valley". The post office was and it served settlements there. In the newspaper there are mentions of people from Long Valley, but there is no reason why people cannot say they are from the Valley they live in. People used an address of Long Valley, because that was there post office. Here is and example: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lassen-advocate-just-a-valley/143501762/ There are also numerous examples in these newspapers of post offices not being named for the town or valley the serve.James.folsom (talk) 22:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Noting previous AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashton, California.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 04:12, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

comment re previous nomination In spite of the barrage of procedural keeps, all of the articles were eventually deleted except for this one and two others, neither of which has been subjected to an individual AfD. Mangoe (talk) 23:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nomination. TH1980 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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