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The result was delete‎. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bromide Junction, Oklahoma (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is a rail junction southeast of Bromide, Oklahoma, where the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway spur going into Bromide junctions with the main rail line. I cannot find significant coverage of this location, and the passing mentions I can find are of this site as a rail junction. I do not see a basis for an article here. Hog Farm _Talk 01:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Oklahoma. Hog Farm _Talk 01:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: I'm getting pretty tired of these minor railroad waypoints being called "unincorporated communities". This isn't a community, and it isn't even a junction anymore, as from the map it looks like both railroads have been pulled up. Nothing notable to see here. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 02:56, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Unfortunately, the only USGS topographic maps prior to 1957 are at 1:125,000 scale and lack the needed resolution. The Ardmore 1:125,000 scale 1957 quad shows it as a barely dicernable unlabled triagular railroad junction. And both railroads were not been even built in 1900 according to the Atoka 1:125,000 scale 1899 and 1900 quads. They show nothing in the way of railroads at this location. The Ardmore 1:24,000 scale 1957 quad shows the junction without either any associated buildings or infrastructure. The online geological maps in the USGS National geologic Map Database almost all show Bromide Junction, either labled or unlabled. without any associated infrastructure. There is lack of any mapped roads connecting Bromide Junction to anything.

  I looked through Google Scholar and so forth, JSTOR, and Internet Archive. I found in Google Books insignificant references such as 1. a note that the length of track between Bromide and Bromide Junction was available be turned into a hiking trail, in brief a route description in a Interstate Commerce Commission Report, and in rate tables in postal and shippers guides for the United States and Canada. I found nothing in JSTOR and Internet Archive and a bunch of unrelated hits in Google Search. I found a lack of any reliable source that provides any documentation that Bromide Junction was ever an unincorporated or a populated place and notable in anyway. Paul H. (talk) 03:28, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: A look at Google Earth shows that the train tracks are now gone and are now dirt roads or trails surrounded by ordinary fields. Paul H. (talk) 03:36, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• I found the same as Paul H., and the ICC report puts the nail in the coffin, as it outright says that Bromide Junction is a junction on a railway line for a spur line that went off to Bromide. Adding to that, we have the 1980s version of the GNIS on Google Books, which tells us the original feature classes before they got squashed some time around 2021. Bromide, Oklahoma is "ppl". Bromide Junction, Oklahoma is "locale", which is a not populated place. The ICC report even talks about how the mining company agreed to not put buildings next to the railway. This is more published-for-years "unincorporated community" lies, alas. Moreover, anything about the Bromide Crushed Rock Company belongs at Bromide, Oklahoma because it's easy to turn up things that say that that's where the company was. This junction is just a junction, not even a railway stop, and not even the ICC report was about the junction. It's on an old list of junctions, and that's it as far as I can find. There are well-documented railway junctions. This does not appear to be one of them. Uncle G (talk) 10:13, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Literally just an old unlabeled railroad junction, no evidence to suggest a "community" or "populated place" was ever located at or around said railroad junction. Looking at a satellite view of the junction, the railroad itself has since been dug out and all that remains are tree outlines and gravel/sand where the railroad once was. Nothing to see there. Fails WP:GEOLAND. Streetlampguy301 (talk) 19:57, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Non-notable rail junction. –dlthewave ☎ 21:05, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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