The result was delete. ✗ plicit 01:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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A while ago, there was a big bundled nom at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Shop Corner, Virginia. It has been found that most of these "corners" in Virginia represent either old boundary markers or named road junctions.
There are many of these "corners" for Stafford County, and searching suggested that only one Holly Corner, Virginia is a legitimate subject. The others are all mass-produced stubs from a questionable database.
From inspection of the map, Wallace's corner is obviously such a survey corner, being one corner of the land area next to Wallace Farms Lane that is marked "Wallace Farms" in the map beneath the pin on Bing Maps. Wallace Farms turns out to have a housing association. McCarthy's corner being on the corner formed by a McCarty Road is similarly indicative of a survey corner of some piece of land once owned by a McCarty. U.S. Civil War records for the Fredericksburg National Cemetery (locatable with Google Books) do indeed list people dying at a McCarty's Farm in Stafford county.
I had high hopes of demonstrating survey corners with Wildcat and Butzner corners, which are two corners of a single roughly triangular piece of land. But the big news is Fines corner.
Fines corner is on the corner of a land area running into the interior of which there is a Fines Lane, which just looks like a lane to an erstwhile farmhouse. So there's probably something named Fines Farm whose land this is one corner of. And there is! And it's in the history books. The Arcadia book ISBN 9780738518480 pages 36–37 places Chinn Farm on the south side of White Oak Road "across from Fines Farm" and the White Oak Museum. The White Oak Museum is at another corner of the very same area, on the north side of White Oak Road, with Fines corner and Fines Lane. Neither of these two farms are notable, not being documented in depth in the Arcadia history book or otherwise that I can find. The Fredericksburg National Cemetery records do list people dying at Chinn's Farm, too, though. And indeed at a Wallace's Farm in Stafford county. Fines Corner being one corner of the boundary to Fines Farm is indicative.
So the claims of "unincorporated community" are all unsupported, having no sources and clearly not the case from map inspection, and in at least one case one can find the actual erstwhile farm whose survey boundary corner is claimed to be an "unincorporated community", with other farms listed in Civil War records. These are the corners of the boundaries of a bunch of 19th century farms.
Uncle G ( talk) 22:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
The result was delete. ✗ plicit 01:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!
A while ago, there was a big bundled nom at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Shop Corner, Virginia. It has been found that most of these "corners" in Virginia represent either old boundary markers or named road junctions.
There are many of these "corners" for Stafford County, and searching suggested that only one Holly Corner, Virginia is a legitimate subject. The others are all mass-produced stubs from a questionable database.
From inspection of the map, Wallace's corner is obviously such a survey corner, being one corner of the land area next to Wallace Farms Lane that is marked "Wallace Farms" in the map beneath the pin on Bing Maps. Wallace Farms turns out to have a housing association. McCarthy's corner being on the corner formed by a McCarty Road is similarly indicative of a survey corner of some piece of land once owned by a McCarty. U.S. Civil War records for the Fredericksburg National Cemetery (locatable with Google Books) do indeed list people dying at a McCarty's Farm in Stafford county.
I had high hopes of demonstrating survey corners with Wildcat and Butzner corners, which are two corners of a single roughly triangular piece of land. But the big news is Fines corner.
Fines corner is on the corner of a land area running into the interior of which there is a Fines Lane, which just looks like a lane to an erstwhile farmhouse. So there's probably something named Fines Farm whose land this is one corner of. And there is! And it's in the history books. The Arcadia book ISBN 9780738518480 pages 36–37 places Chinn Farm on the south side of White Oak Road "across from Fines Farm" and the White Oak Museum. The White Oak Museum is at another corner of the very same area, on the north side of White Oak Road, with Fines corner and Fines Lane. Neither of these two farms are notable, not being documented in depth in the Arcadia history book or otherwise that I can find. The Fredericksburg National Cemetery records do list people dying at Chinn's Farm, too, though. And indeed at a Wallace's Farm in Stafford county. Fines Corner being one corner of the boundary to Fines Farm is indicative.
So the claims of "unincorporated community" are all unsupported, having no sources and clearly not the case from map inspection, and in at least one case one can find the actual erstwhile farm whose survey boundary corner is claimed to be an "unincorporated community", with other farms listed in Civil War records. These are the corners of the boundaries of a bunch of 19th century farms.
Uncle G ( talk) 22:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)