Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashue, Washington

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:50, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ashue, Washington

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PROD was declined on the basis of geographic nominations being controversial. But this is just a non-notable railroad point. The sources cited are insufficient for notability; the only one with any information is reference 4, which plainly states this was a "station". The 1950 USGS topo map shows Ashue as a siding with a couple of buildings in the surrounding area, but no "town": [1]. Several mentions of an Ashue Grange can be found in local newspapers, but all these mentions are passing, and grange halls were usually just meeting halls for local farms, not anything connected to a formal "community". Fails WP:GNG and WP:GEOLAND. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:40, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Washington. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:40, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Best I can find regarding whether people reside there is this: [2], and appears in Native American Placenames of the United States, albeit briefly. It's too bad there's not a "list of unincorporated communities in Yakima County" article... SportingFlyer T·C 11:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a siding, these are the coords for the grange hall in Ashue district. Some kind of farming district. There has never been anything else there. The local paper has ~50 passing mentions. Here are the key ones.https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-sun-news-ashue-grange-location/140741227/ and https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-sun-news-asue-district/140740986/. There would never be enough RS for an article.James.folsom (talk) 20:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If anybody wants to put a list of farming districts in the county article, let me know and I see if I can find them.James.folsom (talk) 20:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
delete Actually it is still a siding, serving an LPG distributor and maybe fertilizer? Anyway, again, need some evidence of a town. Mangoe (talk) 04:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Ashue Road runs through an agricultural area west of Wapato, Washington for about 11 miles and has several farms and houses. Nothing looks like it would amount to a community though. James.folsom has found Ashue farming district and SportingFlyer has found Ashue the name of a local 'service center'. This source states it was a railroad station from 1912.[3]. Ashue is also the name of a soil.[4]. To describe Ashue as an unincorporated community looks to be unfounded. As Ashue relates to different things, I don't see a relevant redirect. Rupples (talk) 00:58, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's definitely nothing now, the question is whether it was ever anything, and I think we've got at least some evidence to that affect. Enough? Not necessarily, but am writing this here in case anyone wants to re-create this with more research than just a GNIS record. SportingFlyer T·C 09:03, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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