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The result was no consensus. Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:21, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Another old post office site that's since been flooded by an artificial resorvoir. State Historical Society calls it a post office, and pre-lake topos shows four buildings spread out over a decent space. Another GNIS U6, which means it lacks the legal recognition to qualify under WP:GEOLAND. Search for WP:GNG-bringing coverage brought up nothing useful. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep valid stub about destroyed settlement, even though the population was very small.72.49.7.25 (talk) 03:59, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • And what evidence are you finding that this is an actual settlement? The sources refer to it as a post office, which is not the same thing. Hog Farm _Bacon 14:30, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Post office does not imply a community and no other evidence indicates presence of one. Glendoremus (talk) 16:09, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Truman Reservoir. Perhaps a mention of flooded communities on the reservoir page will do. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 01:15, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Truman Reservoir. WP:ATD seems reasonable as a target for merge. Wm335td (talk) 16:25, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I looked though some of the many cultural resource management (CRM) reports of the numerous archaeological surveys associated with the building and flooding of Harry S. Truman Reservoir to see if any historical or archaeological surveys or excavations involved Corbin, Missouri. Although I did not find anything in the few reports that I examined, there should exist some sort of official evaluation of the historical and archaeological significance and potential of this abandoned settlement before it was flooded by Harry S. Truman Reservoir.

• What I did find, was that Corbin, Missouri is associated outcrops of fossiliferous Mississippian sedimentary strata that have significance in terms of understanding regional geology and paleontology. Corbin, Missouri, is mentioned in the below publications.

• Branson, E.B. and Mehl, M.G., 1938. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Mississippian of Missouri (Vol. 1). The University of Missouri.

• Bowsher, A.L., 1961. The stratigraphic occurrence of some Lower Mississippian corals from New Mexico and Missouri. Journal of Paleontology, 35(5), pp.955-962.

• Kaiser, C.P., 1950. Stratigraphy of Lower Mississippian rocks in southwestern Missouri. AAPG Bulletin, 34(11), pp.2133-2175. Paul H. (talk) 03:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: I am going to keep working on this (have a bit already), but this is really an interesting one. Definitely a former rural community that is now gone. On the 1940 Iconium USGS Map (1:24000) you can see where Corbin is located, just off MO Route 82, to the east of Corbin Church. A couple houses/structures right there, consistent with rural Missouri communities. On the 1991 map, the church is now Bear Creek Church and the Corbin is gone, now in the lake.[1] Route 82 has been realigned to the south. There's evidence that the Corbin Church and Cemetery have been renamed as Bear Creek (which used to be very close to the post office location, but is now much wider due to the flooding). Two of the cites I've added so far come from Truman archeological stuff I found online, one being a finding aid that shows they have more records. My view of this one is similar to my !vote on Sagrada, Missouri. I've been monitoring the AFDs on rural American places recently, and only swoop in to work on ones that seem worthwhile. E.g., I had fun with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tar Heel, Kentucky but did not !vote keep there.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Keep. I would also support a merge to Truman Reservoir. The place has a post office, the references are fairly trivial. Newspapers.com has a number of articles that state that people lived at Corbin or were born there.here are 2: [2] [3] I'd prefer to see a non-trivial article about Corbin, hence my possible support for a merge. Cxbrx (talk) 15:08, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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