The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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Contested PROD. Only passing mentions to a Fine Gold Creek and a Fine Gold mining district could be found, with no clear evidence that these are connected to the supposed "community". Cited sources are either broken (ref. 2) or passing mentions that establish existence but not notability. The name does appear on the USGS topographic quads for Millerton Lake (1945, 1:62500) and Mariposa (1947, 1:250000) [1], but no other maps before or since that I can locate. Satellite images reveal a rural intersection with a few scattered farmhouses in the area. Clearly not a notable location and without any other documentation than GNIS this is a failure of WP:GEOLAND. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 01:33, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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However there is plenty in Wood 1912, p. 34 about three Fine Gold creeks (the main one and two forks, Little and North) for this to be renamed and refactored into Fine Gold Creek. The town might be lost to history, but we still have geography. As is commonly the case with California, we look to the hydrology. Sometimes a place is a hot spring, or a creek.
And for a second source there are an awful lot of documented old mines on Fine Gold Creek in Crawford 1894.
The icing on the cake is that the Guddes (Gudde 2009, p. 115) say that this is a gulch/creek too. There are plenty of confirmatory statements about things being "in Fine Gold Gulch" in Crawford 1894, such as the Neversweat and Little Willie mines for example.
There's even stuff about a Fine Gold gold deposit, although beware of the self-published book that you will turn up. The truth seems to be that the GNIS and the Durham book are misleading us, and this wasn't a town but a mining camp that was all along a gulch with a creek that we have plenty of documentation for down to the individual mines. Fine Gold Gulch/Creek do turn up in the history books, even. They're in Kyle et al. 2002 (and also in the older non-SUP-revised edition).
This seems a prime candidate for the Project:WikiProject Kentucky/GNIS cleanup document-the-creek-with-mines approach.
Uncle G (talk) 09:29, 6 December 2023 (UTC)