Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ore, Missouri
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The result was delete. Despite 2 relistings, there were no arguments to definitively keep this article, and the consensus is that there is little information about this place to argue for keeping it. PhantomSteve/talk¦contribs\ 12:46, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
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This one has proven very difficult for me to research. Ramsay says that Ore was also known as Winona, and calls Winona a railroad station and Ore a railroad switch. (It had a post office, so I'd say station is more likely). Oldest topos show a single building on the railroad, while by 1954 there's just a long siding with nothing there. Searching for this is very difficult under either name "Ore" is a tough search term for obvious reasons, and Winona, Missouri is an actual town elsewhere in the state. This old county history just says that Ore was a P.O. with Henry S. Berkstresser as postmaster. Passing mention here. This is self-published, but doesn't mention "Ore" or "Winona" anyway. How Missouri Counties, Towns, and Streams Were Named has no "Ore" and only the other "Winona". Newspapers.com brings up some passing mentions to the "Ore Road" and that people farmed near Ore, Mo. If I missed something, I am willing to consider withdrawal, as this was just very very hard to search for. I will note that Ore seems to be the better name to search under, as I found a few passing mentions of this place under the name Ore, but nothing under the name Winona that didn't seem to be the other Winona. Hog Farm Talk 03:36, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:36, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:36, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- delete Personally I would have prodded this, as a passing siding in the midst of a bunch of farms (which it still is to this day) is just too unlikely to have been a town at some point. Mangoe (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Bing Maps (thus here.com) puts Ore further north than the GNIS pin, at the junction of Ore Road and South Ore Road, which seem to position it given their names. It also, at larger scales, names it "Peculiar" with no "Ore". This is Peculiar Township, Cass County, Missouri, distinct from West Peculiar Township, Cass County, Missouri in that The History of Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri that you point to. The History of Cass County, Missouri that you point to also distinguishes Peculiar and West Peculiar, on page 106. So I made a table to try to make sense of this.
This enabled me to find:
ORE A postoffice in East Peculiar township. Cass county, on the L. & S. div. M.P. Ry, 5 miles north of Harrisonville […] Population: 30. Mail, daily. L.C. Humphrey, postmaster
- Humphrey & Co., general store and grain
— 1893 Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, page 772In fact, the very History of Cass County, Missouri that you pointed to has "He settled on a farm just south of where the town of Ore is now located" on page 409.
So it's legally recognized and populated and a place. There's just almost nothing to say about it, from what I can find. History ignores it.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 23:50, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 14:15, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- Weak delete The former post office is a factor towards notability. But then it would basically be an article about the post office, which is currently a case of WP:EXISTS. MrsSnoozyTurtle 00:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
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