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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 23:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nezpique, Louisiana[edit]
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A name added from a soil conservation map for reasons unclear, as no map or aerial shows more than some random houses and such along the road. GHits are in clickbait range especially considering the bayou of the same name. Was nominated once before we understood how iffy GNIS-sourced articles could be. Mangoe (talk) 17:53, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Louisiana. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 18:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- This one is truly ridiculous GNIS mess rubbish. It's a bayou, and we had it at Bayou Nezpique for half a decade before the GNIS importers came along. I can even guess what the map referred to in the GNIS record is. It is likely the Atlas of River Basins of the United States published by the USDA Soil Conservation Service in 1963 with a 2nd edition in 1970. That will be what "Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Soils, Soils maps; various edition dates" is. A map of river basins had Bayou Nezpique in it, which is totally unsurprising; and thanks to a GNIS comedy of errors, here we are fixing rubbish 60 years later. Uncle G (talk) 20:20, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete A search for sources turns up plenty related to Bayou Nezpique and nothing related to a community by the same name. This is either a GNIS error or a barely-verifiable locale, but either way it's not notable. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 19:26, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. As happened in the previous comments, I searched the USGS topographic map viewer, Google Earth, JSTOR, and so forth and found nothing for "Nezpique," except the hits for "Bayou Nezpique." I looked through Geology of Acadia and Jefferson Davis Parishes, (Louisiana Geological Survey) and found nothing for a settlement called "Nezpique" either in it or on its maps and text. Paul H. (talk) 19:01, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment One habit by Dr. E. W. Hilgard, a geologist who published various widely read reports on the geology of Louisiana in the late 1800's that I found confusing was his habit to omit either "bayou" or "creek" when discussing Bayou Nezpique. As a result, there are places in hiss report that simply mention Bayou Nezpique as "the Nezpique" or "Nezpique" and making it ambigous as what he is refering to. Possibly someone misread one of Hilgard's references to "Nezpique" as refering to a settlement instead of a bayou. Paul H. (talk) 01:33, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment 2 I looked at the Soil Conservation Service soil maps on sheets no. 10 and 15 of "Soil Survey of Acadia Parish, Louisiana (1962)" Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Soils and found a complete lack of either text or symbology for a town called "Nezpique." There is a complete absence of any significant cluster of structures shown on these maps at the given location for "Nezpique." The compelete PDF file, including soilmaps can be found at:
- 1. PDF file of "Soil Survey of Acadia Parish, Louisiana (1962)."
- 2. Internet Archive web page for "Soil Survey of Acadia Parish, Louisiana (1962)."
- Finally, I looked at the historic archives of newspapers.com. I found 27 matches for "Bayou Nezpique" and none for a populated place called "Nezpique" in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. Paul H. (talk) 02:26, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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