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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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It's not clear why all roads seem to lead here in the oldest topos, but all map evidence is that it was an isolated railroad siding/station and nothing more. There is a large foundation which could have accommodated a station building, but it doesn't show up on the topos. I would have just prodded this, but searching is, as you can imagine, not terribly fruitful. Mangoe ( talk) 20:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 20:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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- Could it have been the lonely water stop named "Rod"? Uncle G ( talk) 21:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. No post office. Non-notable railway station: [1] and [2] so WP:STATION applies. I think Rod station was elsewhere, the Rich Station reference is from 1915, whereas the lonely water stop named "Rod" states that the name Rod was from the early 1900's - so Rod and Rich are probably different. It looks to me like that Suckow found colemanite when drilling on a ranch four miles from Rich Station. Suckow's deposit eventually became the Rio Tinto Borax Mine. In 1927, more borax was found near Rich Station, see [3]. Searching for '"Rich Spur" Mojave' finds a few railfan websites that are not WP:RS. As Rich seems to be only a station and is only mentioned in passing in trivial articles, it does not meet WP:GEOLAND. Cxbrx ( talk) 21:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete My search does not find anything notable, both the nom and user Cxbrx are unable to find anything. Jeepday ( talk) 17:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:MILL and WP:SNOW. "There's no there there." Bearian ( talk) 18:37, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: Agree it looks like it was a rail station, and was probably put into USGS as a populated place because it appears on topo maps. If it had a station house it was "populated" at one point, but I'm not seeing evidence of any notability in any event, even if Kernite was discovered near there.-- Milowent • has spoken 18:56, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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It's not clear why all roads seem to lead here in the oldest topos, but all map evidence is that it was an isolated railroad siding/station and nothing more. There is a large foundation which could have accommodated a station building, but it doesn't show up on the topos. I would have just prodded this, but searching is, as you can imagine, not terribly fruitful. Mangoe ( talk) 20:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 20:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 20:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Could it have been the lonely water stop named "Rod"? Uncle G ( talk) 21:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. No post office. Non-notable railway station: [1] and [2] so WP:STATION applies. I think Rod station was elsewhere, the Rich Station reference is from 1915, whereas the lonely water stop named "Rod" states that the name Rod was from the early 1900's - so Rod and Rich are probably different. It looks to me like that Suckow found colemanite when drilling on a ranch four miles from Rich Station. Suckow's deposit eventually became the Rio Tinto Borax Mine. In 1927, more borax was found near Rich Station, see [3]. Searching for '"Rich Spur" Mojave' finds a few railfan websites that are not WP:RS. As Rich seems to be only a station and is only mentioned in passing in trivial articles, it does not meet WP:GEOLAND. Cxbrx ( talk) 21:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete My search does not find anything notable, both the nom and user Cxbrx are unable to find anything. Jeepday ( talk) 17:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:MILL and WP:SNOW. "There's no there there." Bearian ( talk) 18:37, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: Agree it looks like it was a rail station, and was probably put into USGS as a populated place because it appears on topo maps. If it had a station house it was "populated" at one point, but I'm not seeing evidence of any notability in any event, even if Kernite was discovered near there.-- Milowent • has spoken 18:56, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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