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This is yet another spot copied into GNIS from the 1906 Iowa Geological Survey, and which also happened to be the location of a rural post office. After that, things become rocky. The topos don't go far back, and they don't acknowledge one of the two farms at the crossroads, even though it goes back into the 1930s at least. There might have been a third farm, though it's more likely part of the second, on the other side of the road. Anyway, searching gets hits that suggest a creamery, and for a hunting club, for the Farmers' Co-operative Telephone Company (organized there), and for shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine. Does this add up to a town? At this point my answer would be no. It comes across as more of locale. A narrative of it as a town is conspicuously lacking. Mangoe ( talk) 03:06, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
So yes, it is documented as a hamlet in one source, 7 decades later, but doesn't turn up in contemporary gazetteers or histories. Everything else has just the post office, in post office directories and as "one mile west of Amund post office". No, I cannot in all honesty claim "Wally" as a reliable source. Uncle G ( talk) 12:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Amund: A hamlet and post office (1888-1907) in the northwest corner of section 22, Eden Township.
— Hawkeye Heritage. Vol. 13–14. Iowa Genealogical Society. 1978., page 176
Moreover, I'm just putting Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources into practice, as you should but are not. Why on Earth is someone named "Wally" on a discussion forum on a WWW site a reliable source? Who is that person? What are xyr credentials? Do you even know? The Rand-McNally map is laughable, as it literally isn't even a dot on that map. Compare with the other named places; there's no actual equivalent hollow dot symbol next to Amund, and that isn't telling you what it is. This exhibits the very let's-just-assume-what-the-dot-on-the-map-is problem that underpins the whole GNIS mess. Lastly, things saying "in Amund" don't actually tell us what it is either. It could be a farm for all that that says. (And indeed Mangoe observes two oblique hints in sources that it was a farm.)
The best that you've got is Mott, which is word-for-word the same as the Hawkeye Heritage but still decades after the fact. Polk's (which actually has a 1908 edition, but lists "discontinued" post offices in its 1918 edition), Lippincott's, and others are good for post offices, as well as post-hamlets, post-villages, and suchlike. (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer is from 1865, so isn't to be expected to have something from 1888, and indeed it has not. For the same reason, it isn't to be expected in the 1886 Union Publishing History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago counties, Iowa.) But Amund does not appear in any of the actually contemporary gazetteers that I've been scouring to find all of these places. It doesn't come up in any of the history books on Norwegian settlement in Iowa. It's only in things like the 1909 United States Official Postal Guide, ironically listed in the section "POST OFFICES DISCONTINUED ON ACCOUNT OF RURAL DELIVERY" on page 702.
Then you've got the problem that after all this all that we've got is "X was a hamlet" or "X was a post office" with no actual in-depth documentation, which directory listings and map dots are not. All of this effort only gets one over the "unincorporated community" hurdle of identifying the actual subject and getting past the GNIS rubbish, and doesn't demonstrate actual documentation in depth of geology, history, politics, demographics, &c. that notability needs.
The result was keep. ✗ plicit 03:25, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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This is yet another spot copied into GNIS from the 1906 Iowa Geological Survey, and which also happened to be the location of a rural post office. After that, things become rocky. The topos don't go far back, and they don't acknowledge one of the two farms at the crossroads, even though it goes back into the 1930s at least. There might have been a third farm, though it's more likely part of the second, on the other side of the road. Anyway, searching gets hits that suggest a creamery, and for a hunting club, for the Farmers' Co-operative Telephone Company (organized there), and for shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine. Does this add up to a town? At this point my answer would be no. It comes across as more of locale. A narrative of it as a town is conspicuously lacking. Mangoe ( talk) 03:06, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
So yes, it is documented as a hamlet in one source, 7 decades later, but doesn't turn up in contemporary gazetteers or histories. Everything else has just the post office, in post office directories and as "one mile west of Amund post office". No, I cannot in all honesty claim "Wally" as a reliable source. Uncle G ( talk) 12:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Amund: A hamlet and post office (1888-1907) in the northwest corner of section 22, Eden Township.
— Hawkeye Heritage. Vol. 13–14. Iowa Genealogical Society. 1978., page 176
Moreover, I'm just putting Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources into practice, as you should but are not. Why on Earth is someone named "Wally" on a discussion forum on a WWW site a reliable source? Who is that person? What are xyr credentials? Do you even know? The Rand-McNally map is laughable, as it literally isn't even a dot on that map. Compare with the other named places; there's no actual equivalent hollow dot symbol next to Amund, and that isn't telling you what it is. This exhibits the very let's-just-assume-what-the-dot-on-the-map-is problem that underpins the whole GNIS mess. Lastly, things saying "in Amund" don't actually tell us what it is either. It could be a farm for all that that says. (And indeed Mangoe observes two oblique hints in sources that it was a farm.)
The best that you've got is Mott, which is word-for-word the same as the Hawkeye Heritage but still decades after the fact. Polk's (which actually has a 1908 edition, but lists "discontinued" post offices in its 1918 edition), Lippincott's, and others are good for post offices, as well as post-hamlets, post-villages, and suchlike. (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer is from 1865, so isn't to be expected to have something from 1888, and indeed it has not. For the same reason, it isn't to be expected in the 1886 Union Publishing History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago counties, Iowa.) But Amund does not appear in any of the actually contemporary gazetteers that I've been scouring to find all of these places. It doesn't come up in any of the history books on Norwegian settlement in Iowa. It's only in things like the 1909 United States Official Postal Guide, ironically listed in the section "POST OFFICES DISCONTINUED ON ACCOUNT OF RURAL DELIVERY" on page 702.
Then you've got the problem that after all this all that we've got is "X was a hamlet" or "X was a post office" with no actual in-depth documentation, which directory listings and map dots are not. All of this effort only gets one over the "unincorporated community" hurdle of identifying the actual subject and getting past the GNIS rubbish, and doesn't demonstrate actual documentation in depth of geology, history, politics, demographics, &c. that notability needs.