Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin, Kansas

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The result was delete‎. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:23, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Martin, Kansas

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Another short-lived not-a-town post office. Mangoe (talk) 05:47, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:43, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:43, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I can't find any evidence this was ever more than a rural post office.Jbt89 (talk) 07:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)</strikethrough>[reply]
See Ellis County, Kansas#Communities. Blackmar does not have this at all. But I have a second more contemporary source, in addition to the KHS one here, for this being a post office. However:
Martin; a hamlet in Saline Township, in Ellis County.
— Gannett 1898, p. 146
Uncle G (talk) 12:33, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- DeleteHmm, maybe the play is to Merge into Buckeye Township, Ellis County, Kansas. The site is currently in Buckeye Township, which ended up with it after absorbing Riverview Township, which was formed by dividing up Saline Township. [1]https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_townships/search/county:EL Jbt89 (talk) 20:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a problem with redirecting to the township when it has the same name, but I don't see the point here. Mangoe (talk) 13:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

references

Gannett, Henry (1898). A Gazetteer of Kansas. Bulletin. Vol. 154. United States Geological Survey. OL 20596112M.

Merge it or delete It's a post office, the local paper for this county goes back to around 1840 at least. There are no mentions of a settlement called Martin. There is a post office called martin along the Saline river. People used it as a stopover between destinations. Purportedly, postmaster Delay's wife was a good cook, and would serve a good meal to those laying over there. There isn't really any one article that tells the story though. You just kind of have read them all. Every mention of this place is of the post office, The most illustrative example being this one. https://www.newspapers.com/article/ellis-county-news-republican-drowned/139266707/. Sorry to bum you guys out.James.folsom (talk) 22:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- No worries. At this point we have the Kansas Historical Society now, the contemporary Kansas State Board of Agriculture back in the 19th century, and your newspaper clippings, calling this a post office; and only Gannett in 1898 saying that it is a "hamlet", which isn't that great a claim in any event. And on the gripping hand, nothing much to say about it in either form. Especially if we subtract the generic all-Kansas-articles infobox and further reading, and unverifiable ghost town with zero population claim. Uncle G (talk) 07:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I've copied over a couple sentences about the post office at Martin to the Buckeye Township article. People who are really interested in the history of this part of rural Kansas can find it there. No reason for this obscure rural post office to have its own article.Jbt89 (talk) 06:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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