Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midway, Woodbury County, Iowa

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The result was keep. Going with the keeps here. Good work User:TheCatalyst31 and User:Firsfron. Missvain (talk) 18:01, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Yet another GNIS rntry from the Iowa Geological Survey, locates to a crossroads with a few farms about. I'm not having any luck finding anything substantive, other than dots on old maps. Mangoe (talk) 17:08, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, I'll have to concur with Mangoe here, nothing came up for my search either.--🌀Locomotive207-talk🌀 17:56, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:19, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:19, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep I was able to confirm that this was a legitimate settlement. It still has its own church, and according to this recent article on the church's history, it once had its own school. It also once had its own post office (albeit a fourth-class one), was described as a "little village" in this article, and shows up in a few obituaries and similar pieces [1] [2] [3] [4]. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 20:17, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Using TheCatalyst's sources and The Annals of Iowa, I have been able to expand the article significantly. More will follow soon, but this was a noted community, and appears on a ton of maps from the 1800s-1930s era, even long after the post office closed. Firsfron of Ronchester 08:56, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Wikipedia is a gazetteer about populated places. --Doncram (talk) 16:22, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Agree with Doncram RickH86 (talk) 21:53, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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