Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Occident, Indiana
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Geschichte (talk) 11:08, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
Occident, Indiana
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The county histories say that the predecessor town went nowhere, and that Occident was just a post office and not a town. Mangoe (talk) 03:47, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 06:30, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. This was a populated place.
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- "John F. Beher was for a great many years a popular merchant at Occident, this county, where he conducted a general merchandising business until the time of his death in September, 1881, at his home in Occident." (p. 159)
- "JOSEPH F. BOWEN, M. D., of Occident, this county, whose name for many years has been a household word in the northern part of the county and where he is known as an able, reliable and progressive physician." (p. 224)
- "Doctor Bowen at once located in Occident and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession there ever since." (p. 15)
- "Doctor Charles S. Green, the fourth son of Doctor Lot Green and one of the county's leading dental surgeons, was born in the town of Occident, Jackson township, this county, December 2, 1883." (p. 21)
- - "The first store opened in the township in the early days was that of Jones & Parker, in the once locally famous, but long since abandoned hamlet of "Tail Holt," later called Occident, which was a post office for a number of years."
- - Ellen Frazee died here in 1909.
- - The place had a school. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:12, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
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- Keep absent a suitable merge target. See where it is described as a town. Katzrockso (talk) 22:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 03:20, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:GEOLAND. This was a town, as stated in the piece linked above that contains sigcov. Six houses and thirteen people. Kelob2678 (talk) 10:46, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep meets GEOLAND per above. ~EDDY (talk/contribs)~ 20:11, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep – per Magnolia677 and Katzrockso. Svartner (talk) 22:02, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep Per above, it was populated and meets WP:GEOLAND. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 15:59, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. Fits WP:NTOWN. BlookyNapsta (talk) 08:23, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
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