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I found this one via it's unusual name. I've seen how a lot of stubs like this for unincorporated communities in California were deleted, and I'm thinking this one is non-notable. From what I can gather in the brief sources listed, there was a post office here from 1900 to 1901, a rather short period of time. GNIS calls it a "populated place" and cites a 1919 map. If it was truly an unincorporated community, then I don't think it would be legally recognized, so it would have to go through the second part of WP:GEOLAND, which requires a GNG pass. I'm not finding anything in a Google search or a Google books search. Interestingly, a 1919 history of the county this place was in doesn't seem to mention it. The county history is over 800 pages long, and is about a decade and a half after Yolo's "heyday", so if Yolo really was a significant place at any point in time, it would surely be mentioned. I can find a 1894 topo map online [1], but this doesn't have anything marked for this town, although the map does predate the post office by six years. The GNIS statement suggests that the relevant map was "Calhoun East", I've tracked down a 1953 topo for that map here, it's too grainy for me to easily read it, but it's clear that there's nothing of significance where Yolo should be. A modern Google Maps query is giving me a single house with some barns/outbuildings [2]. Interestingly, an old listing of place names in the county calls it "Yolo Post Office". That source also gives the detail that the post office was established in part of a store. Keep in mind, this post office was only active for about a year. GNIS also has a separate listing for "Yolo Post Office (historical)". So it looks like GNIS entered the post office, which is clearly marked on GNIS as a post office, and then didn't realize that a marking on another map was also the post office, and gave it another entry, assuming it was a populated place. No indication that this was ever more than an isolated store/farm, and with the post office lasting only a year, I see no indication that this was ever a populated place, or that it will ever be notable. Hog Farm Bacon 21:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
The result was delete. Tone 06:47, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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I found this one via it's unusual name. I've seen how a lot of stubs like this for unincorporated communities in California were deleted, and I'm thinking this one is non-notable. From what I can gather in the brief sources listed, there was a post office here from 1900 to 1901, a rather short period of time. GNIS calls it a "populated place" and cites a 1919 map. If it was truly an unincorporated community, then I don't think it would be legally recognized, so it would have to go through the second part of WP:GEOLAND, which requires a GNG pass. I'm not finding anything in a Google search or a Google books search. Interestingly, a 1919 history of the county this place was in doesn't seem to mention it. The county history is over 800 pages long, and is about a decade and a half after Yolo's "heyday", so if Yolo really was a significant place at any point in time, it would surely be mentioned. I can find a 1894 topo map online [1], but this doesn't have anything marked for this town, although the map does predate the post office by six years. The GNIS statement suggests that the relevant map was "Calhoun East", I've tracked down a 1953 topo for that map here, it's too grainy for me to easily read it, but it's clear that there's nothing of significance where Yolo should be. A modern Google Maps query is giving me a single house with some barns/outbuildings [2]. Interestingly, an old listing of place names in the county calls it "Yolo Post Office". That source also gives the detail that the post office was established in part of a store. Keep in mind, this post office was only active for about a year. GNIS also has a separate listing for "Yolo Post Office (historical)". So it looks like GNIS entered the post office, which is clearly marked on GNIS as a post office, and then didn't realize that a marking on another map was also the post office, and gave it another entry, assuming it was a populated place. No indication that this was ever more than an isolated store/farm, and with the post office lasting only a year, I see no indication that this was ever a populated place, or that it will ever be notable. Hog Farm Bacon 21:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)