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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 19:06, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fountain Creek, Illinois (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Not to be confused with Fountain Creek Township, Iroquois County, Illinois. Maps show only a rail siding with a grain elevator, and newspaper articles cover the nearby creek not this location. –dlthewave ☎ 18:56, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Illinois. –dlthewave ☎ 18:56, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Can't seem to find coverage of the community, just the township and the creek itself. Information on the page is uncited, Newspaper Archive was of no help. Jordano⁵³ 22:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• There was no village within the Township at least at the time of the Beckwith 1880 county history. A quick check of the railway guides, after a glance at the old maps, reveals that this was a stop on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad in the 1930s and 1940s. Uncle G (talk) 02:32, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dowling's 1968 History of Iroquois County at the Internet Archive reveals that the only two actual villages in the Township were Claytonville and Goodwine. Fountain Creek was a grain elevator, and railroad stop. Uncle G (talk) 02:45, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete per Uncle G. Never a community in the sense required by GEOLAND. A redirect to Iroquois River (Indiana-Illinois) might make sense if the waterway was mentioned there or a redirect to Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad if the grain elevator was included on it's list of stops, but since neither condition is met Deletion is probably best in this case. Eluchil404 (talk) 23:26, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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