The result was speedy keep. The nomination was withdrawn. Thanks to Jfire for quick action and referencing. Firsfron of Ronchester 00:47, 15 January 2024 (UTC) Firsfron of Ronchester 00:47, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Non-notable location. My PROD was declined because the University of California has an agriculture lab there (reference 3 in the article), but that page only uses the word Meloland once, as the original name of the facility (never referring to it as a "community"). Otherwise the sources cited are GNIS and Durham's, which are not sufficient for notability. Satellite view shows the UC facility surrounded by farmland, nothing approaching a community. Most likely this was a flag stop on the interurban railroad; nothing else could be found. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 00:23, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Now for the stunning alteration of Meloland into a metropolis: In 1910 the population was ten. By 1920 it had doubled; in 1930 it had achieved perfect stability (which means that it remained the same as in 1920); in 1940 it was only five persons less (several of them being schoolchildren brown, yellow, white and freckled); in 1950 it stayed proudly unaltered... Geologists have named a Meloland soil, not to mention an Imperial, a Superstition, a Holtville and a Gila. The County Recorder once believed in the existence of a Meloland Orange Tract, on which a breach of obligation of a certain Deed of Trust took place in 1924; another pioneer or speculator had defaulted on his mortgage. Lots eleven, twelve, twenty-three and twenty-four in Meloland, together with others on another page, would be sold in three months. So don't tell me that Meloland did not exist, no matter that if I buttonhole somebody in El Centro and ask him how to get there, he'll say he never heard of it. The canals and green fields of Meloland are jewel-like in the evening light. The hay bales like green bullion on the pool tables of alfalfa fields now turn golden-orange. They are highly improved.
By the 1990s, it was the HQ of a farm named MAGCO, whose owner still called it Meloland despite the mail by then going through Holtville.
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… which the USDA gives details of.The four principal soil series of the Valley are the Imperial, Meloland, Holtville, and Rositas.
— Thomas, Edward E. (1936). Reclamation of White-alkali Soils in the Imperial Valley. Bulletin. Vol. 601. California Agricultural Experiment Station., p.4
There appear to be more sources cited at https://beyond.nvexpeditions.com/california/imperial/meloland.php .
The box is a suitably mellow colour.