Satus has a population of 750 people scattered across 70 square miles of farmland. The largest population center I've been able to find from aerial imagery has ten buildings, three of which look rather abandoned in Google Street View.
Looking through Google Books results, it definitely *was* a community: I'm seeing references from the 1910s to the 1940s. After 1945, though, the search results are either for the CDP or are Satus mailing addresses. As far as I can tell, it's not an unincorporated community in the way that someplace like Anatone[1] is, or a recognized region such as Mead[2]. The Satus CDP appears to simply be a bookkeeping region for the census that was given an old name. I'd have no trouble calling it a "place=locality", but calling it any sort of "significant community" seems like an exaggeration. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatone,_Washington [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead,_Washington -- Mark On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:27:45 -0600 Chris VandeVenter <dcmac...@bismanapps.com> wrote: > I would leave it in place. Census designated place is a place that > is not incorporated as a city under state law but is still a > significant community. It’s been a large debate on Wikipedia about > their, but general consensus is they are significant enough to > include. The CDP boundary follows what the community would have if it > were an incorporated city. For example, U.S. Air Force bases are > generally treated as census designated places. > > Chris VandeVenter > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 26, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Clifford Snow > > <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > > > In the middle of the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation sits Satus > > [1] that as far as I know only exists in some Census bureaucrat > > world. Asking around here I haven't found anyone familiar with the > > area. Wikipedia [2] doesn't help much either. > > > > I'd like to remove it from OSM. What reasonable checks do I need to > > do before deleting it. Or do they belong in OSM and I should leave > > it alone. > > > > I should add that the reason I want to delete it is because > > currently shares a boundary with the Yakama Nation. The boundary > > needs updating. > > > > > > [1] > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/237292#map=11/46.2322/-120.1180 > > [2] > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Satus,%20Washington?uselang=en-US > > > > Thanks, > > Clifford > > > > -- > > @osm_seattle > > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
