Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ulco, California

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The result was delete. — The Earwig (talk) 05:03, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ulco, California[edit]

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I have to suspect that Durham, the only source, describes this as a lumber camp rather than as a town, but in any case the only trace of something like it is this photograph of an Ulco logging camp, which may or may not even be of Durham's location. Furham's directions aren't terribly helpful, as seventeen miles is so far east of Ft. Bragg that Willits is lot closer; at any rate, my searching of the topos produced nothing. I single year with a post office isn't going to cut it for notability, and that's all we have. Mangoe (talk) 01:27, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:39, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:39, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Also prodded by @Geschichte. Durham describes it as "Ulco post office" under the entry for Fort Bragg. It was original research to misrepresent this as a settlement. Reywas92^Talk 01:40, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In the process of procrastinating on accounting homework, so will look for coverage. So far got brief announcement that P.O. was opened, and that's about it on newspapers.com except for repeated statements in a 1930s announcement that a polling place inspector was from Ulco. Searching elsewhere brings up even less - mainly just the lumber company and a bunch of scanner errors. With no significant coverage to be found, this has to be a delete. Hog Farm _Talk 01:53, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- So with the source above, I was able to find Churchman Creek on the topos. Neither the 1920 nor 1943 Glenblair 1:62500 USGS topos show any form of development along Churchman Creek. If there was ever any sort of permanent inhabitation here, it made little mark of its existence. Hog Farm _Talk 02:02, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as prodder, unless something is provided to meet WP:V. Geschichte (talk) 10:39, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ULCO was a telegraph code ("cable address") for the Union Lumber Company that was headquartered in Fort Bragg (on 6th and Channel, according to the telegraph directory). An Ulco logging camp could be anywhere, as the company had a fair amount of forest in the county. Gudde's place names book does not have Ulco; nor does the 1938 California Names: Over Two Thousand Five Hundred Place Names, Individual Names, Words and Phrases in Common Use in the Golden State, Spelled, Pronounced, Defined and Explained by Harry Laurenz Wells. Elsewhere I can confirm from a 1932 USPS directory that there was an Ulco post office. There's practically nothing to say about it. The Union Lumber Company history should probably say that the company had its own post office. This is not notable and the article at hand is false. Uncle G (talk) 09:39, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- It now does say. Uncle G (talk) 15:56, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.