Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rankin, Arizona

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 06:55, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rankin, Arizona

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Barnes's place name book describes this as a station (a flag stop, to be precise), and the maps testify to that: they show a siding with nothing around, a situation which never changes. In the 1950s the airbase apparently forced a huge rerouting of the rail line, with this piece being converted into a spur into the base, eventually abandoned. Searching is yet again impossible given the number of notable/notorious people named Rankin in the county, but the maps and Barnes really tell the story. Mangoe (talk) 06:44, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 11:57, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I do not find evidence of notability. Lightburst (talk) 17:28, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.