Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devils Elbow, California

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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:26, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Devils Elbow, California[edit]

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Gudde refers to the name as "An unidentified place, listed in the State Library Roster," and while there are various legal references to a place by this name, it is on/near to the San Joaquin River, which is a long ways south. As soon as I put Colusa County into the mix, I get nothing but clickbait, false hits, and GNIS itself. The name doesn't appear on topos until the mid 1960s, and it initially sits next to a hairpin curve in the road before migrating west a short ways. No buildings, and aerials all show typical sparse Sierra forest, and nothing else. It's not at all clear what's going on here, but it looks like some kind of mistake in mapping. Mangoe (talk) 15:51, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 16:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 16:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete my educated guess is that someone named the hairpin turn the Devil's Elbow (which is down a gated private dirt road to nowhere) and it got picked up upstream and eventually made its way into the GNIS database, which digitised old topo maps. I can't find nothing on it, and we've had road intersections come through these parts before. SportingFlyer T·C 16:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No idea what this is. A newspapers.com search turned up a restaurant in Fresno, a road curve or river bend in Plumas County, and a road in Mendocino County. I can't find anything about a feature in Colusa County. Hog Farm _Bacon 16:43, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete The Devils Elbows in Durham are not in Colusa County. Map obviously shows it isn't a community. Reywas92^Talk 00:29, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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