Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Low Gap, Washington

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 10:51, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Low Gap, Washington

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Unusually good topo history for the area makes it quite clear that this was a 4th class post office in a residence, the same farm/orchard property that, with changes over the years, still sits on the west side of the road as in the oldest topo from the 1910s. There was no town here. Mangoe (talk) 04:52, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:36, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:36, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - A poster child for why having a post-office is basically meaningless as to whether or not there was an actual community at the site. Post offices could be (and are now) literally anywhere, often inside stores/stations that may not be situated within any actual community. Some of them are literally mobile.

The Mid-Twentieth Century Pioneering of the Royal Slope of Central Washington source is interesting until you realise that 1) It's a master's thesis based largely on interviews with local residents, 2) it concedes that Low Gap basically doesn't exist (see p. 50), 3) it is often simply describing a census precinct (i.e., basically a census tract). Even accepting it as a single instance of WP:SIGCOV, more than this is needed for a WP:GNG pass. FOARP (talk) 10:46, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - This was never anything more than a single farmhouse. –dlthewave ☎ 02:52, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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