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Leaning delete According to
this article, the spot was only a railroad station until the 1950s, when a family opened a motel and small housing development on the site. The name Asher apparently stuck for the site, since
a 1960 article uses it (and mentions the same family who opened the motel). The trouble is, the first article implies there was no community here before the 1950s, and whatever happened in the 1950s didn't really seem to get off the ground, since there sure isn't much at the site today.
Interstate 8 would have bypassed the motel in the 1970s, and while there's something that could be a trailer park on aerial imagery from the 1990s, it's gone by the early 2000s. Without any evidence that this was a more permanent or otherwise notable settlement, I'm inclined to call it a short-lived locale and delete it.
TheCatalyst31Reaction•
Creation15:25, 21 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Another rail stop from the steam engine days or passing siding, never a community of any kind. I discount that it ever had a class-3 post office; the source says Asher (Wellton) which I believe means the post office was in
Wellton. The newspaper article says the "developer" was planning a motel, cafe, and 15 houses on 1/2 acre lots. I looked at the area with the Yuma County GIS app and didn't see the 15 lots, so I doubt his community ever got off the ground.
MB16:46, 21 November 2020 (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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Leaning delete According to
this article, the spot was only a railroad station until the 1950s, when a family opened a motel and small housing development on the site. The name Asher apparently stuck for the site, since
a 1960 article uses it (and mentions the same family who opened the motel). The trouble is, the first article implies there was no community here before the 1950s, and whatever happened in the 1950s didn't really seem to get off the ground, since there sure isn't much at the site today.
Interstate 8 would have bypassed the motel in the 1970s, and while there's something that could be a trailer park on aerial imagery from the 1990s, it's gone by the early 2000s. Without any evidence that this was a more permanent or otherwise notable settlement, I'm inclined to call it a short-lived locale and delete it.
TheCatalyst31Reaction•
Creation15:25, 21 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Another rail stop from the steam engine days or passing siding, never a community of any kind. I discount that it ever had a class-3 post office; the source says Asher (Wellton) which I believe means the post office was in
Wellton. The newspaper article says the "developer" was planning a motel, cafe, and 15 houses on 1/2 acre lots. I looked at the area with the Yuma County GIS app and didn't see the 15 lots, so I doubt his community ever got off the ground.
MB16:46, 21 November 2020 (UTC)reply
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