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It's been a little slow, so I'm going to AFD this declined prod. I've had some free time so I've kinda beat this dead mule to death, and will pass the carcass to AFD.
Helsing Junction is a railroad junction, and like many of these it had a post office.
The article itself has two sources: GNIS (no contesting it unreliablity) and Thurston County Place Names, which states it is a rail junction and mentions settlers but avoids committing on whether they live there. There is a picture of "Independence Rail yard at Helsing Junction". I can certainly understand how an editor in a hurry could turn this entry into a town. It's entry also adds "See Independence" implying this is in that place.
In terms of what the local newspapers say: This news article (2002) from the talk page discussion [1] describes it as the place that Rochester used to be known as. The reader will need to lift a little here as I'm unable to provide a readily available link.
The above article is about a church's 100th anniversary, and a similar article was also written about this church on the occasion of it 70th(1972). [2] It states the church was built about 3 miles from Helsing Junction which it says is at Independence.
Just based on this, this article ought to be merged/redirected with Independence or Rochester, I'm leaning toward Independence. But that should be a discussion in this AFD.
Here is a temporal sampling of some further articles that I think show this is only a junction: 1964 [3], [4]; 1923 [5] mentioned in a news report from Independence. James.folsom (talk) 21:04, 6 April 2024 (UTC)