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The result was delete. ✗plicit 06:29, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Mouth of Hector, Kentucky
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Another one where GNIS is sourced to Rennick. Looking in Rennick's KY place names book and his Clay County directory, Rennick has a P.O. 5 miles away from this supposed site named Hector, Kentucky and a statement that the Eriline, Kentucky P.O. served the area around the mouth of Hector's Creek. Searching brings up clickbait, GNIS and wikipedia mirrors, and passing mentions to the mouth of Hector's Creek. Topos show Hector's Branch flowing into the Red Bird River at the GNIS coordinates, with essentially no sign of human development. The existance of a supposed "unincorporated community" here is unverifiable. Hog Farm Talk 03:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 03:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- This is very easy once one happens upon State Historic Marker #908, as I did through Bing Images. This rivermouth was the original site of the Red Bird River Petroglyphs and the murder of the Red Bird for whom the Red Bird River is named. It is not a community, and people do not live there. There is a parking lot on the opposite bank of Red Bird River to the creek mouth where the marker used to be. Tankersley is an associate professor of archaeological geology at the University of Cincinnati.
(For completeness, I note that Rennick 2016a goes straight from "MOUTHCARD" to "MUDDY FORD" and the "HECTOR" in Rennick 2016b is the post office 5 miles away. Rennick 2016c has the 1898 apocryphal, since corrected by Tankersley, version of the tale and the creek mouth under "RED BIRD RIVER".)
Uncle G (talk) 07:46, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. The topo map does not have a place name at this location, but GNIS says it is a historical populated place, which is plausible. The map shows a couple of buildings, the New Hector Church not far away and the Jesse Bowling Cemetery (shown but unnamed and not in GNIS). Rennick 2016c says Eriline Post Office (historical) would have been serving the Mouth of Hector Creek, so there were people living there. Probably valid as an entry for a list of populated places in Clay County, if there were one, but not enough for an article. (I think the murder of Red Bird was at the mouth of Jack Creek, just east on the other side of the river.) Aymatth2 (talk) 17:01, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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