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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:42, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Herrin, Nevada

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As Cxbrx noted on the article talk page last year, this one doesn't look notable. The Nevada Place Names source is just a single sentence saying it was a non-agency rail station. Searching brings up passing mentions, an announcement issued when the station was closed, and references to a college basketball player, William F. Herrin, and Herrin, Illinois. This doesn't appear to meet WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG. Hog Farm Talk 03:44, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:44, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nevada-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:44, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Taking a further look, the 1932 1:250K Sonoma Range topo shows 3 buildings labeled "Herrin" adjacent to the tracks. The buildings never appear in the Winnemucca 1:250k map nor the early Knight 1:24k topos. The 2011 Knight 1:24k has a label of Herrin, but no buildings, my guess is that they got the info from the GNIS. Searchin Newspapers.com replicated User:Hog Farm's results (basketball player, William F. Herrin, and Herrin, Illinois). Newspapers.com did come up with a 1903 article about a cutoff that excluded Herrin and prompted a station named "New Herrin" to be created. "Raho" and "Stonehouse" were also on the cutoff. (Stonehouse could be associated with Stone House, Nevada). (Raho is a new name to me, GBooks found a shipper's guide that mentions Raho and that's about it). I checked GBooks again for Herrin and came up with nothing. Herrin is not listed in the index of Humboldt County 1905 As this location is not legally recognized and has virtually no coverage, trivial or not, neither #1 nor #2 of WP:GEOLAND are met. This location does not meet anything in WP:STATION nor WP:GNG. Cxbrx (talk) 04:42, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. My searches pulled up similar results as Cxbrx. NewspaperArchive searches pull up a 1906 article about an unknown man killed by a train "at Herrin". I found nothing to suggest there was a community here. Herrin isn't listed in Cram's 1887/1890 Atlas; it's also not listed in Cram's 1900/1902 Atlas. It's listed in Rand McNally's 1925 Premiere Atlas, with a population of "---", indicating a rail-only site. PostalHistory.com searches show there was never a Herrin post office. There isn't enough here to write an article, and all evidence I can find suggests there was never a population here. Firsfron of Ronchester 05:48, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Cxbrx's excellent analysis. –dlthewave ☎ 17:11, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Nothing on topos, no sources that anyone's been able to come up with, and my own newspaper searches turn up nothing but crap. jp×g 01:56, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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