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No indication that this is an actual recognized community. Map does show a Sigmund road. Seems to be just an informal area mis-labeled in GNIS. MB 04:10, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Pennsylvania. MB 04:10, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Location cannot be found when looked up, probably doesn't meet NGEO. Toadspike (talk) 05:33, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - This was a populated place.

• [1] and p. 35 - Settlement was also called "Sigmunds Furnace", "Mary Ann Furnace", and "Hampton Furnace".
• [2]:

• "George Rothenberger...was born at a homestead at Sigmund" (p. 1373).
• There was a reunion there (p. 510).

• P.788 - A post office named "Sigmund" was established in 1872.
• [3]:

• A school was erected in 1877. (p.151)
• A creamery and home were built there in 1886. (p.152)

• [4] - The Hereford Literary Society wrote that "many new members had come in from Harlem, Sigmund and vicinity" (p.151). This source also lists many names of people with a P.O. address of Sigmund.
• [5] - Calls Sigmund a "settlement" established in 1872 around a store located there (p.7). Magnolia677 (talk) 10:49, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Still not seeing this is a community. GNIS is not a reliable source for making such determination. Every other source above refers to Sigmund/Sigmund Furnace/Hampton Furnace as an industrial site - a kiln where charcoal was made. After that, the site was a gunpowder mill until it blew up, and later a creamery. It was owned/run by one family. A birth occurred in their house on the property (the homestead). No one lived on the property except the proprietor. There was a post office named Sigmund for a short time "on the road to the mill", and a small school used the name Hampton, but this was after the mill-site had shut down. IMO, it's a stretch to label this a community when the majority of the sources clearly are talking about the mill site. We don't have articles on every farm/ranch/factory, etc. MB 15:57, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MB: You missed the last two sources I listed. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:39, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would still stay this is not a legally recognized place and therefore fails WP:NGEO. It was a small Hamlet (place) (see the specific definition for Hamlet (place)#New York which I am personally comfortable extending for purposes of determining notability). This place had no government, boundaries, or any of the other hallmarks of a community, except a short-lived post office. It is a "rural neighborhood" that should be covered in "the more general article on the legally recognized populated place or administrative subdivision that contains it". Since the article is virtually all WP:OR, there is nothing to be merged but I support a mention and redirect to Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. MB 19:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sigmund had people, a school, a store, industry, and a post office. It was a populated place without legal recognition. This satisfies WP:NGEO. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - I would be willing to keep this if someone would edit this into at least a stub. Bearian (talk) 19:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearian: I have added some of the sources above to the article. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:15, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per WP:HEY per good work by Magnolia677. Bearian (talk) 18:11, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per WP:HEY Djflem (talk) 05:47, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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