Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walnut Grove, Arizona

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Kudos for the improvements to the article during the discussion. Mojo Hand (talk) 00:32, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Walnut Grove, Arizona (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Six miles or so north of the Walnut Grove Dam site, there is maybe a schoolhouse and maybe a church. The topos show the school (by name) but do not label a town name until relatively recently. There is also a large cemeterya mile south, and in between, the Gold Bar Ranch, which claims to be in "historic Walnut Grove". Other than that, not getting much. There may be some documentation of an actual town here, but I'm not finding it. Mangoe (talk) 03:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Some hits on Google Books. Ignoring the brand books and several news mentions of the dam, there still may once have been a town there, and it seems to have had a mention with respect to Apache Wars. Will dig deeper in a while. I agree that there does not seem to currently be a settlement there besides perhaps the ranch. The site marked for the school on Google Maps has a 360° pano showing absolutely no buildings, so it too may be historic only. However the pin says the school is "temporarily" closed so I can't rule out the possibility that it has really big grounds. Elinruby (talk) 04:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: I've done a little bit of adding to show the place as at least previously being a settled place of note -- it actually missed being the territorial capital of Arizona by one vote in 1864.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:56, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: I cropped it out of the 1903 USGS topo map and added that to the article. Bonus it still shows the location of the dam. jengod (talk) 22:09, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per above it missed being the capital of Arizona by 1 vote and a 1903 UDGS topo map lists it.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 23:03, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - with recent work, seems like an ok article about a former settlement. Also likely redlink otherwise Elinruby (talk) 03:25, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep meets WP:GEOLAND Lightburst (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Wikipedia:HEY.Djflem (talk) 21:32, 23 January 2023 (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.