Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Packing House Corner, Delaware

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:35, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Packing House Corner, Delaware[edit]

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Another Sussex County notability nadir case, and for this one the only thing I can find out is that there is a family cemetery nearby. Older aerials and topos show a building in the center of the intersection, and you can still see the foundation, but we're talking a small building, 45 feet (14 m) on a side or so. There's a large turkey farm a short ways east, and that's pretty much it. There is a road sign, though it's rather odd, and I'm not convinced that it's official. In a few other cases I've let that tip the balance, but there is just nothing here to go by unless someone can find a lot of newspaper coverage that explains it. Mangoe (talk) 03:16, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:31, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:32, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This Google Book search looks promising, but I can't read the snippet. History of Sussex County may be helpful. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:46, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - can't access the snippet for the first book linked by Eastmain, but it appears to be a self-published genealogy book, which likely isn't going to be useful for these purposes as it probably isn't reliable. The History of Sussex County PDF linked above does not seem to mention this place so far as I can tell. Searching in newspapers.com finds results calling this a named crossroads/intersection. Name seems to come from the fact that a packing house was here until it burned down in 1973; the article referencing the fire has the name "Packing House Corner" in quotation marks, which seems to suggest this isn't an actual community. This seems to have just been a road junction with an old packing house. Hog Farm _Talk 20:26, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I agree with Hog Farm about the descendants of Houston book, it is probably self-published. GBooks had very little of note. The 1966 USGS book calls it a locality whereas GNIS calls it a populated place. Past experience has shown that the GNIS is often not correct when it comes to populated place. JStor had nothing. Newspapers.com had little of note, I found the article about the 1973 fire. I'm not sure if anyone lived at Packing House Corner, though I found a mention of Packing House Corner in a list of communities. I found a mention of a chimney fire, though it might not have been a house. As this locale is not legally recognized, it does not meet #1 of WP:GEOLAND. As all the coverage is at best trivial, this location is non-notable and does not meet #2 of WP:GEOLAND. Cxbrx (talk) 19:04, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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