Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elliot, California

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:17, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Elliot, California

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Durham calls it a locality on the Southern Pacific RR. GNIS gives an alternate name of Elliot Siding. The California Journal of Mines and Geology says the Elliot Gravel Pit was located at Elliot siding near Pleasanton. Seems that Elliot was nothing more than a railroad siding. No indication it was a community or otherwise notable. Glendoremus (talk) 17:02, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 17:15, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 17:15, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The USGS historical maps collaborate the above findings. They show a progression from a railroad siding, called Elliot in 1941, lacking any associations with buildings, streets, or pits to a railroad siding, called Elliot Siding in 1953, associated with a dry (active ?) gravel pit. By 1961, the name Elliot has disappeared and the associated gravel pit is now flooded. Next to it, there is a loop of railroad tracks serving newer gravel pits. Both are labeled East Pleasanton. The only road shown is Stanley Bvld that connects Pleasanton and Livermore. Currently, the flooded gravel is known as Shadow Cliff Lake and is part of a regional recreational area. None of the maps contain any indication of there ever being either a populated place or community of any sort associated with Elliot. Paul H. (talk) 18:31, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete I can confirm all of the above, with the additional information that the gravel operation has moved slightly to the east and is still there, straddling the tracks. Mangoe (talk) 20:35, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Railroad siding at a gravel pit. GNG would need to be met in this case; it is not. Hog Farm _Bacon 01:32, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom Devokewater (talk) 13:22, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No post office. GNIS cites Alameda County Place Names, but Google is not making that quote available to us. Searching newspapers.com is tricky because Elliot is a name and there was an Oakland councilperson by that name. In newspapers.com, I searched for "Elliot Siding", "Elliot Southern Pacific in California", "Elliot gravel pit" and others and came up with nothing. Beware the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elliot (historical) in San Joaquin county. As this locale has no legal recognition, it does not meet WP:GEOLAND #1. As this locale has almost no coverage, and the coverage it has (Alameda County Place Names) is trivial, it does not meet WP:GEOLAND #2. Cxbrx (talk) 14:54, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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