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DeleteTopo map and Google Maps indicate this is just an old railroad siding. Searching for Churchill with Bureau County, Plank Road, and Chicago and Northwestern has no results in newspapers.com though others may find something with this name.
Reywas92Talk19:18, 25 May 2022 (UTC)reply
delete The oldest topos show a single rail line at this point, and no name; later a cutoff line appears along with the name, suggesting that "Churchill" was never anything more than a name for the junction, once it appeared. No evidence of a town and not a notable rail location.
Mangoe (
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19:47, 25 May 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I'm usually ultra-inclusionist about geographic place names, but a search for the name in Newspapers.com for the 19th Century returned bupkis.
Carrite (
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19:45, 30 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
DeleteTopo map and Google Maps indicate this is just an old railroad siding. Searching for Churchill with Bureau County, Plank Road, and Chicago and Northwestern has no results in newspapers.com though others may find something with this name.
Reywas92Talk19:18, 25 May 2022 (UTC)reply
delete The oldest topos show a single rail line at this point, and no name; later a cutoff line appears along with the name, suggesting that "Churchill" was never anything more than a name for the junction, once it appeared. No evidence of a town and not a notable rail location.
Mangoe (
talk)
19:47, 25 May 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I'm usually ultra-inclusionist about geographic place names, but a search for the name in Newspapers.com for the 19th Century returned bupkis.
Carrite (
talk)
19:45, 30 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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