Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lancaster, Arizona

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 20:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lancaster, Arizona

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Searching is hopeless with 5M-plus GHits even with the county included, but maps and aerials show nothing except a small area which doesn't appear to belong to the surrounding federal land. No evidence for notability. Mangoe (talk) 19:54, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 20:13, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Lots of false positives is all I found at Google search and Google Books Elinruby (talk) 11:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The location definitely is an actual name for a place (see map), but looking at an aerial view I really don't see any evidence of inhabited structures in the area. I see a cable cut for high-voltage wires that ends about where Lancaster is, but merely having a cable cut does not suffice for WP:NGEO. It's quite remote, with two dirt forest roads being the only ways in or out, so I very much doubt that it is currently inhabited. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's also listed in the 1987 National Gazetteer as a "locale", but I'm doubtful that meets the threshold of "legally recognized populated place". I will keep looking. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:25, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the USGS map from 2014, which contains Lancaster. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Google gets hung up on Edwards Air Force. Can you tell if that's between I-40 and the Grand Canyon? By eyeballing the map, I think so. If so it's in a national forest, so we can quit looking for settlements. I am also quite certain (which is OR and anecdotal, yes) that it does not have an exit off I-40. Elinruby (talk) 18:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch that, it's south of Flagstaff in the Pine Mountain Wilderness. Only been through there once, on the interstate, but based on Google Maps, it's on a forest road that looks like it probably closes in the winter, so I am strongly inclined to say there is no settlement there. Elinruby (talk) 18:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's in the Tonto National Forest and near the Coconino National Forest, per the USGS map. If you see the location where I-17 intersects with State Route 69 and head due East until the edge of the county, you'll see it labeled on the state land management map. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:55, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While this is definitely a named locale, I see no evidence of WP:SIGCOV an no evidence that this is a legally recognized populated place after conducting a search for sources. While it exists in GNIS, GNIS is unreliable for feature classes, and it plainly appears to be wrong regarding the feature class in this case. There is nowhere reasonable to merge this to and no place to redirect this to; no article appears to cover this locale on Wikipedia, while the coverage in sources appears to be entirely maps and GNIS-sourced Gazetteers. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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