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Yet another NWP station stop that is long gone, in the midst (now anyway) of a spread of vineyards. Searching was cluttered by Spanish language results and by mis-scans of the word "large", but I did find a few references of the usual someone "from" there, and one stating that on the opposite side of the river there was once a dry ice factory; I could find no trace of it, but neither the topos nor the aerials go all that far back. Mangoe (talk) 02:59, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. jp×g 03:59, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. jp×g 03:59, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Topo maps from 1958 to 2018 show a persistent nothingness in this zone. No results in news, no results on Google I could find (I had to search with -tanker because otherwise it gets confazed by there being a freight ship named Largo). Nothing in books except for translation or OCR errors. I don't think anything is really going on with Largo, California. jp×g 04:06, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Gudde calls it a railroad station. Newspapers.com is largely useless due to about 11,000 (literally) scanner errors of the word large, but the string "Largo station" brings up some passing mentions, references to a water gauge for the Russian River, a ranch being near Largo station, and an announcement from the state railway commission recommending closure in 1949. Other things I could find in other sources: the postmaster at Largo sent in some plants for identification in 1903. Nonagency station reclassified to Class E in 1949. And you've got this 1937 photograph of Largo Station with hills in the background that's a single small building. I'm inclined to think this isn't notable, but I'm willing to listen if someone can find something significant. Hog Farm _Talk 05:15, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• The 1890 Bancroft's Official Railway Guide of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway Company has it as the stop after El Robles on the Ukiah to Hopland main line. Searching is made somewhat easier by looking in conjunction with "Crawford Ranch", which is just to the west of the station. I cannot find any documentation other than timetables for the station, or indeed in depth documentation for the ranch, sorting out the Charlie/Leslie problem. Uncle G (talk) 09:13, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Hopland, California where I added a mention. Largo is Spanish for Long and it was named for L.F Long ([3]) who grew the first hops there ([4]). The region became hop-farming country, hence the nearby Sanel being renamed Hopland. Since this is where it all started I figure it could be mentioned in the Hopland article. People did live at Largo^[a] but I'm not sure there's enough evidence to call it a settlement.----Pontificalibus 11:13, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. There are several passing mentions in Carpenter and Millbury's History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California (1914), but not in-depth enough to establish notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:42, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]