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The result was redirect to Ukiah, California. (non-admin closure) TheChronium 17:03, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I almost PRODded this, but there was one passing reference to this as a town (in yet another book on placename origins), and I didn't want to go through the process twice. Anyway, I don't think that's good enough as testimony, as it's likely the author simply assumed that a name on a map was for a town. What it actually was is pretty clear: as "formerly, El Roble Siding" suggests, it was a very minor Northwestern Pacific station stop. Other than that, the placenames reference, and a lot of name drops in locating other things, I found nothing, and the maps and aerials show that it just sits in the middle of a bunch of agriculture. Mangoe (talk) 02:05, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Mangoe (talk) 03:20, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Mangoe (talk) 03:20, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• This is a C46 creation. The author wasn't looking at a map. The author was reading a GNIS record that said "Populated (Community) Place" and "Variant Name El Roble Siding".

  This was indeed a stop between Henry and Ukiah, per what I can turn up (including Field operations of the Bureau of Soils 1914, page 2636, which also explains Hopland, California versus Old Hopland, California and gives a clearer idea of what to do about Largo, California (AfD discussion)). There doesn't seem to be anything to say about it. However, I think that the Largo idea may apply here.

  Uncle G (talk) 05:51, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Ukiah area per Uncle G's suggestion in the Largo Afd discussion. It is a Populated, legally recognized place per WP:GEOLAND, so by that reasoning it has the presumption of notability, but really, by the smallest of margins. If it was a siding, it probably was regarded as a 'place' by the inhabitants who would have referred to themselves as living there by it's name, but it has no other notability than that based on the sources mentioned. AntiVan (talk) 12:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Ukiah area per all above. Peneplavím (talk) 04:02, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Ukiah, California. Missvain (talk) 01:10, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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