Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mount Pleasant, Kansas

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The result was keep‎. RL0919 (talk) 16:56, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Pleasant, Kansas

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GNIS permastub from a removed listing. Whereas Mount Pleasant Township is a real census area, there appears to have never been any town called Mount Pleasant; only a lone post office. Passenger pigeon (talk) 08:08, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. Passenger pigeon (talk) 08:08, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:54, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Worst case something about it can be included in the article that OP mentions but as a standalone with little evidence that it actually existed, no. Darron4 (talk) 10:45, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. History of Kansas at https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof00andr/page/402/mode/2up (page 403, reference already in article) describes Mount Pleasant as "the town site of Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant Township", which I think means the urbanized area of the township as distinct from the surrounding rural area. This is followed by brief biographies of residents, suggesting that considerable work went into that chapter, not just scanning maps looking for place names. I looked for the coordinates included in the article, 39°26'52.0"N 95°08'16.0"W. Google Maps shows several buildings (which apparently are all part of one farm) at the intersection of Rawlins Road and 222nd Road, but no Street View images or names of occupants. There is more urbanization near https://goo.gl/maps/2eB8GVUg47KHwed36 , which is a bit to the south and which Google Maps shows as 18343 KS-74, Atchison, KS 66002. I don't think we can ignore the historical evidence of History of Kansas, but I don't know whether 18343 KS-74, Atchison, KS 66002 is Mount Pleasant or not. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 11:51, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The Lippincott-Gazzeteer of 1880 said it had a population of around 1300 along with two churches, so WP:GEOLAND is satisfied. SportingFlyer T·C 12:54, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. and thanks to Eastmain for coming up with the definitive source via Internet Archive. I've added that source to the history section, so this should never have to come up again. — Maile (talk) 18:08, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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