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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 04:27, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lanam, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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So, here we have another way to create a spurious GNIS entry. I will begin by saying that none of the aerials give the slightest confidence that there was ever a settlement here: there's an isolated building shown on GMaps, but you don't have to go very far back before it's an unbroken expanse of forest. So, we go to the topos. When you get back a ways, they do show a "LANAM" label, but it's in the physical feature font, running at an angle. And if you look around you'll see a lot of similar labels, many of them marking "ridges". And indeed in searching I find a number references to "Lanam Ridge", including the road that runs though the area. Apparently either the "ridge" part of the label either got lost or was for some reason omitted, and then some GNIS map reader missed the font clue and turned it into a "populated place". There is a "Lanam Cemetery" a ways to the east, at least according to Find-a-Grave, but I can't find a connection of it to anything (which is pretty typical), and Lanam appears to be a common enough name that it accounts for most hits. At any rate, if there was a Lanam town, it wasn't here. Mangoe (talk) 02:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per the nominator's research. It looks like at one point there may have been a post office near the site named "Oak Farm"[1], but I couldn't find any maps that mark the location as an actual town or settlement. ╠╣uw [talk] 12:56, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete The Locals know this as Lanam Ridge, and this should get moved there if not deleted. This is a neighborhood of residents of the ridge. I can't find any one article gives the nature of the place, except this [2] which is less specific than I would like. But I do believe that this is just another neighborhood in Brown county.James.folsom (talk) 00:22, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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