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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 02:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Camp Roberts, Indiana
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Searching for this is hopelessly masked by the former military facility in California, but judging by the topos it appears to have been a literal camp. The oldest topos don't show it or the main buildings there; then it abruptly appears. If someone could shed some moe light on this it would be helpful. Mangoe ( talk) 02:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. I agree there's no evidence this was ever an actual town or community. On all the old maps I checked there was nothing of any significance at the site well into the 20th century [1] and modern maps show nothing there now except a few scattered residences near an unremarkable stretch of road. [2] A 1930s plat map [3] indicates that tracts around the site were owned by the Roberts family, which presumably is the origin of the name, but I'm not sure how the spot came to be a named locality on later maps. Seems safe to delete. ╠╣uw [ talk 17:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. Not finding anything via ProQuest or Internet Archive either. (Searched for "Camp Roberts" and "Indiana" together and got 141 hits on ProQuest, but they are all about Camp Roberts, California.) Cielquiparle ( talk) 10:59, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Comment The brown county news papers have ~700 mentions of a community call Camp Roberts(some are for california), it has businesses but is never referred to as anything but a community or an area. First mention is a lost dog in 1952. It is not chronicled in
[4], and this newspaper clipping
[5] sums it up nicely. Look near the bottom of the first column.
James.folsom (
talk) 23:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- @ James.folsom Nice work proving "appears to have been a literal camp" was on the money. Cielquiparle ( talk) 06:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete as above discussion James.folsom ( talk) 23:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 02:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Camp Roberts, Indiana
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Searching for this is hopelessly masked by the former military facility in California, but judging by the topos it appears to have been a literal camp. The oldest topos don't show it or the main buildings there; then it abruptly appears. If someone could shed some moe light on this it would be helpful. Mangoe ( talk) 02:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. I agree there's no evidence this was ever an actual town or community. On all the old maps I checked there was nothing of any significance at the site well into the 20th century [1] and modern maps show nothing there now except a few scattered residences near an unremarkable stretch of road. [2] A 1930s plat map [3] indicates that tracts around the site were owned by the Roberts family, which presumably is the origin of the name, but I'm not sure how the spot came to be a named locality on later maps. Seems safe to delete. ╠╣uw [ talk 17:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. Not finding anything via ProQuest or Internet Archive either. (Searched for "Camp Roberts" and "Indiana" together and got 141 hits on ProQuest, but they are all about Camp Roberts, California.) Cielquiparle ( talk) 10:59, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Comment The brown county news papers have ~700 mentions of a community call Camp Roberts(some are for california), it has businesses but is never referred to as anything but a community or an area. First mention is a lost dog in 1952. It is not chronicled in
[4], and this newspaper clipping
[5] sums it up nicely. Look near the bottom of the first column.
James.folsom (
talk) 23:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- @ James.folsom Nice work proving "appears to have been a literal camp" was on the money. Cielquiparle ( talk) 06:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Delete as above discussion James.folsom ( talk) 23:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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