Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poplar, Iowa

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The result was keep. czar 06:44, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Poplar, Iowa

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Another rural post office at a crossroads, not a town as far as I can tell, although searching on one of the most popular street names in the country is difficult. Mangoe (talk) 04:01, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:49, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:49, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just like Larland, Iowa (AfD discussion) this has two dates in the OBSOLETE POSTOFFICES list in chapter 20 of the History and even the dead "ghost towns" source calls it a post office. The 1929 Annals of Iowa has this as a post office in its abandoned towns section ("In section 6, Sharon Township. Post office, 1893-1903.") That's all of the information that I can find on the subject. Uncle G (talk) 13:04, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Sharon Township, Audubon County, Iowa, and add a note of the post office. Detailed plat maps from the era show that this was a post office in the northeast corner of the township; nothing else is shown. Firsfron of Ronchester 20:12, 23 May 2021 (UTC) Keep. Milowent's excellent work sourcing this article has convinced me that Poplar has clearly been noted in historic documents. Incidentally, I had independently discovered the same archive of Audubon county newspapers and was working on Viola Center, Iowa; it's clear several other hamlets in the area could also be salvaged similarly. As Milowent says, these communities were the subject of frequent coverage in the region, and it's cool that we have access to those historic documents. Firsfron of Ronchester 05:15, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Found a site of historical Iowa newspapers, and Poplar was the subject of frequent coverage in their holdings as one of the rural communities of the area. Added some cites to the article. Typical midwestern United States unincorporated rural community. I see a number of obits from people who grew up there too, but I didn't cite those. But it was a populated place recognized by the local community.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:20, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kept digging -- its actually part of the Poplar Rural District, the largest rural settlement of Danish immigrants in the United States. The article just needed some help.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:58, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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