Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tar Heel, Kentucky

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The result was delete. Not seeing sufficient sourcing that indicates this was ever verifiably a community/settlement/what have ye. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tar Heel, Kentucky

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I have no idea what in the world this could possibly be. GNIS entry is sourced to Rennick, but neither Rennick's Hickman County directory nor his index mention a Tar Heel. Not on the topographic maps, even those postdating GNIS. Coordinates take me to a barn. Not sure what this is/was, but it looks to fail WP:GEOLAND. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete Mass-produced junk, is obviously not a community. Lacks significant coverage about supposed place. Reywas92^Talk 19:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we have to speedy it, its been around for over 7 years!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Ha, this one is odd. Not even entered onto GNIS until Jan 2013, is that odd? I found this [1], which appears to be some old research index of Hickman County place names. At pdf page 62, the entry for "Lick Skillet", it makes a reference to "Nearby was Shady Grove Sch. in the Tar Heel or New Chapel area." And i found the 1986 book that makes this reference online (see page 84)[2]. May dig a little more. Sure, it is probably not notable but a fun mystery.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- IIRC, the topos seemed to indicate that New Chapel was a church. The coordinates for Tar Heel are north of New Chapel, but there doesn't seem to really have ever been much of anything there. The same user also created Blue Pond, Kentucky, which after research turns out to be a pond, not a community, so a lot of these "places" are likely spurious. Hog Farm _Bacon 21:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The author Virgina Honchell Jewell's 1986 book about Hickman County has a section about a storyteller from "Tarheel". This is about as folklore-type stuff as you can get. That specific story is also copied into this book [3] (hopefully Google Books lets you see the pages) Quotes include: "Arthur Bugg, a delightful teller of tales and philosopher of Tarheel community..." "Tarheel is the area north of New Chapel Church. Various explanations have been given as to how it got its name--one being that it was settled by North Carolinians." "I remembered when there were seven or eight passenger trains a day passing through the Tarheel area." Note, I am not saying this is enough for notability so far, I'm just intrigued by the oddness of this one!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 22:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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