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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:34, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
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I may be missing something, in which case I'm willing to withdraw this, but I'm not seeing a WP:GEOLAND pass. Rennick's Ohio County directory's description of Kirtley is stating there was a post office there from 1905-1915 and that it was located on Mr. Kirtley's farm. His index calls it a locale (geography), which is defined by the USGS as any point where there was human activity but is/was not a community/town/city/settlement/mine/dam. So, most locales will fail GEOLAND. No mention in Ohio County, Kentucky in the Olden Days. I had to search newspapers.com with the string Kirtley Ohio County, because searching for Kirtley in Kentucky newspapers was only bringing up ads for a furniture store in Bowling Green. The refined search term brought up two or three short reports from 1913 about W. A. Kirtley being fired as the postmaster of the Kirtley p.o. Unless I'm really missing something, GEOLAND and WP:GNG are not met here. Hog Farm Bacon 05:19, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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- Delete I found more mentions of Kirtley in newspaper sources, but they seem to confirm that this was never a proper community. There's a reference to a Kirtley's Landing existing in 1901, and several mentions of a Kirtley's church camp at the site in the mid-twentieth century [1] [2] [3], all of which points to this being a locale rather than a community. The only other evidence here is that Kirtley is listed as the closest place to multiple sites in the Green River Shell Middens Archeological District, but that doesn't really prove it's a community; every so often I'll come across a site on the NRHP where the listed "closest place" is marked as a locale in GNIS, even. TheCatalyst31 Reaction• Creation 18:17, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:34, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
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I may be missing something, in which case I'm willing to withdraw this, but I'm not seeing a WP:GEOLAND pass. Rennick's Ohio County directory's description of Kirtley is stating there was a post office there from 1905-1915 and that it was located on Mr. Kirtley's farm. His index calls it a locale (geography), which is defined by the USGS as any point where there was human activity but is/was not a community/town/city/settlement/mine/dam. So, most locales will fail GEOLAND. No mention in Ohio County, Kentucky in the Olden Days. I had to search newspapers.com with the string Kirtley Ohio County, because searching for Kirtley in Kentucky newspapers was only bringing up ads for a furniture store in Bowling Green. The refined search term brought up two or three short reports from 1913 about W. A. Kirtley being fired as the postmaster of the Kirtley p.o. Unless I'm really missing something, GEOLAND and WP:GNG are not met here. Hog Farm Bacon 05:19, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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- Delete I found more mentions of Kirtley in newspaper sources, but they seem to confirm that this was never a proper community. There's a reference to a Kirtley's Landing existing in 1901, and several mentions of a Kirtley's church camp at the site in the mid-twentieth century [1] [2] [3], all of which points to this being a locale rather than a community. The only other evidence here is that Kirtley is listed as the closest place to multiple sites in the Green River Shell Middens Archeological District, but that doesn't really prove it's a community; every so often I'll come across a site on the NRHP where the listed "closest place" is marked as a locale in GNIS, even. TheCatalyst31 Reaction• Creation 18:17, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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