Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rye, Washington

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 04:58, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rye, Washington[edit]

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Having fixed the coordinates (they were originally those of a "Ryan" in another county) we find ourselves in a desolate area north of the Yakima Training Center, where the old Milwaukee Road mainline grade is impressively visible still as a series of cuts and grades (and occasional tunnels) across some pretty rugged terrain. And that is basically it. There is no town here, and there almost certainly never was a town: I found this 1956 map which shows that land ownership is still divided up in the original checkerboard of railroad land grants. The topos show a single building at the west end of a passing siding, which presumably is the station that the place name citation describes this place as being. Searching found nought else but references to the grain. The old rail roadbed has been made into a 250-mile (400 km) long state hiking trail, which I expect would be awesome for the prepared in the right season, but a settlement at Rye? No. Mangoe (talk) 03:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:30, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:30, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Origin of Washington Geographic Names calls it a station, so we have no reliable sources that call it a town/community/settlement and no evidence that the spot meets GNG. The property map confirms that it was likely never subdivided into the small plots that one would expect to find in a town. –dlthewave ☎ 06:02, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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