Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lone Oak, West Virginia

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 03:36, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lone Oak, West Virginia

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This does not appear to be a notable location. Topos show one or two buildings at a crossroads in the middle of nowhere. This 1980s USGS directory calls it a locale (geography) without further explanation. Searching brings up a subdivision in Kanawha County, a church in Jackson County, a cemetery in Mason County, and a school in Putnam County. This does reference a Lone Oak School in Marshall County. I don't think a passing mention of a school and a statement that the site is a locale are enough to indicate notability. Hog Farm _Talk 02:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 02:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 02:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't help that there's a Lone Oak cemetery in Marshall County, Tennessee, moreover. There's no apparent mention of this Lone Oak in Rice's and Brown's 2019 West Virginia: A History. A dot on a map in the 1972 plan for Marshall County Airport tells us nothing. An 1899 geological survey and a 1914 Automobile Blue Book both explicitly name a Lone Oak School House, but in fact that's a different GNIS record for a different place further to the south: "Lone Oak School", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. I haven't turned up anything else actually documenting this subject. Uncle G (talk) 14:26, 25 May 2021 (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.