Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horse Creek, Wyoming

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 00:30, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Horse Creek, Wyoming

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All topos and aerials show a couple of buildings a little ways from the railroad, but I couldn't find evidence of anything town-like except for the zip code. And about that: if you search by town name, it does indeed give that zip code, but then says, "This ZIP Code™ used for a specific PO BOX". I couldn't find an explanation of this, but it suggests that the now-single-property picks up its mail somewhere else. I'm not seeing the GEO-notability. Mangoe (talk) 01:14, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that there are a lot of things named "Horse Creek" around, including multiple creeks. Mangoe (talk) 01:15, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It's a tiny community, but it's a community, and it got newspaper coverage in 1989 when a couple from North Carolina bought the entire town: see [1], [2], and [3]. This article seems to explain the post office situation; apparently the physical post office was closed in the early 2010s because of an emergency operational issue. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 15:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Wyoming. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. See WP:GEOLAND for example. Even if it's just a single property now, it wasn't in the past; it was a real community, and notability isn't temporary, or we might delete articles on no-longer-extant entities like Roman Empire and Soviet Union. Nyttend (talk) 21:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep passes WP:GEOLAND with the previous sources above. SportingFlyer T·C 21:22, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: there are sources such as the ones cited above that indicate that the article passes WP:GEOLAND. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 12:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep per sources above and WP:GAZ. Can't find many more substantial sources on Newspapers.com, but it certainly existed as a small community in decades past. AviationFreak💬 05:41, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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