Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fagan, California
This is a tricky one. The basic thrust of  is that if it is or ever was an actual community, it should be kept; if it was just a locale or some other type of name on the map, it should be deleted unless it passes GNG. Aside from the CSU Chico paper found by {{u|Magnolia677}} I'm not seeing any other sources that refer to Fagan as a community. The city of Gridley, California|Gridley 2 miles to the north has a long-running local paper, the Gridley Herald, with an extensive selection of back issues available as a free searchable online archive. When I searched the archive for Fagan, almost all the results were people with the last name Fagan. A search for "in Fagan" returned nothing. A search for "at Fagan" returned one result about "ordering six cars for the Southern Pacific siding at Fagan". A search for "from Fagan" returned two results: one about a company called Fagan Alligator Products from Dade City, Florida; one about "surfacing portions of Hwy 99E from Fagan station south of Gridley to the Biggs intersection". Looking at historic maps using the USGS topo explorer, I noticed that the high-res maps marked Fagan but the low-res maps marked the same area as Manzanita. This made me suspect that while the siding/station is called Fagan, the community that formed in that area became known as Manzanita instead. Further searches of the Gridley Herald archives substantiate this. Dozens of search results appear listing Manzanita alongside the more-established local cities of Gridley and Biggs. Most of these are in the context of the local school districts of those names, but not all, for example: "Dr. Ward urges all pet owners in the Biggs, Gridley and Manzanita areas to have their dogs and cats immunized against rabies." Other examples of coverage that implicitly treat Manzanita as a community, for example: "Gridley firefighters responded to a mobile home fire near Larkin Road in Manzanita." Finally, local toponymy also supports the name Manzanita; in addition to the school district and elementary school of that name, there is a Manzanita Market and there used to be a Manzanita Fire Station. Everything I've found leads me to believe that the author of the CSU Chico paper was saying that a community had formed around the site of the siding, not that that community was known as Fagan.&minus;&minus;&minus
— User:CactusJack, 09:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:GEOLAND (Wikipedia:Notability)