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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 22:44, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Abington, Louisiana[edit]
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This article has been unsourced since 2015, and I cannot find evidence of notability as it's not even listed on GNIS. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 22:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Louisiana. Shellwood (talk) 22:57, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete No sources, no article. All I could find are junk SEO content farm sites, most of which probably get their content from Wikipedia. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 00:15, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- It's U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Abington, Louisiana. But that is not reliable. Plus the sock-puppet accounts including Futurewiki (talk · contribs) have quite a set of now-deleted bad Louisiana (and Texas) "unincorporated community" articles, and has made a habit of never citing a single source. This is not worth the time to even investigate. This isn't even a competent GNIS importer. Effectively this is a zero-context article. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 01:15, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete A quick look for sources turns up a few mentions of Abington as a place name, but nothing substantial, and there's next to nothing at the site now. If someone eventually finds sources in a place I didn't look, I wouldn't be opposed to recreation, but there's no use keeping an unsourced one-sentence article if we can't find them now. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 19:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete In general, as above, found a few usages of "Abington" as a place name, but nothing substantial enough to indicate any notability as a populated place. Searching can get confused because one of the geologists, who has published research on the Red River is named Dr. Abington.
- 1. Google Earth - location in the middle of Red River Parish currently lacking any sign of populated place at the junction of Abbington Lane and Louisiana Hwy. 1.
- 2. The 1948 Coushatta 1:62,500, USGS topographic map shows loose cluster of four buildings marked "Abington" at above interesection. The 1957 Coushatta 1:62,500, USGS topographic map shows intersection still marked as "Abington" with only two buildings. The 1980 Harmon 1:24,000, USGS topographic map still has interesction marked as "Abington" and shows none of the buildings remaining.
- 3. Soil map, sheet 11, of the "Soil Survey of Red River Parish" by the Soil Conservation Service (1980) shows the above intersection marked as "Abington" with no buildings evident in the aerial photography. Go see Soil Survey of Allen Parish, Louisiana. and Internet Archive PDF file.
- 4. The 1948, 1:62,500, Red River Parish geological map in "Geology of De Soto and Red River Parishes" by the Louisiana Geological Survey also marks the junction of Abbington Lane and Louisiana Hwy. 1 as "Abington." Abington is mentioned a few times in the discussion of the geomorphology of the Red River in "Geology of De Soto and Red River Parishes" as a trivial point of reference.
- 5. Found, but could not access: Nichols, R.R., 1941. Locating neighborhoods and communities in Red River Parish, Louisiana.
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