Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Five Forks, Kentucky

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Five Forks, Kentucky

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Rennick tells us that this is a 5-way road intersection with A store building on the right. Several homes in the vic. Searching is difficult because the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia muddies the searching waters, but what I can establish is that there was a Five Forks voting precinct formed in 1920. I did find a newspaper announcement giving the boundaries of the precinct, which include much more than our intersection, so apparently the road junction and the precinct are not quite equivalent. There is also a private road in a subdivision of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, but that is elsewhere in the state. I can find passing mentions of the precinct in Lawrence County as late as 1934, but the only significant coverage I can find is the official boundaries announcement, which just gives the boundaries and nothing really about what the precinct contained.

The intersection doesn't seem to be notable, and I'm doubting the precinct is. Hog Farm _Talk 21:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 21:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 21:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

• It's not in Rennick 2016 which goes straight from "FITCHBURG" to "FIXER". The placename card in the Rennick Collection says what is in the nomination and notes that it's simply three river forks that go off in five directions from there. However, the GNIS isn't sourced to Rennick for this record, but is sourced to Rennick for a different record ("Five Forks Hill", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior) in a different place (38°38′04″N 082°39′00″W) about 80 kilometres away. And even that does not match up with Bing Maps (Maxar/TomTom) and topographic maps that put that Five Forks at 38.614803°N 82.561721°W / 38.614803; -82.561721 instead. So this Five Forks is not Rennick's Five Forks either, and even that's dodgy because it's not the Five Forks in yet a third place. Finding sources is just impossible, not only because of the battle, but because once one gets past that there's Rennick and the fact that there are multiple undistinguished Five Forks on the map in the same county.

  Summary: This only cites the GNIS as a source; and it isn't verifiable through Rennick, nor otherwise apart from multiple occurrences of the same name in different places on a topographical map. Uncle G (talk) 10:52, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

  • Rennick, Robert M. (2016). "Place Names Beginning with the Letter F". Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection (13). Morehead State University.

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