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Correcting Factual Errors

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In the United States, a single geographic point can have multiple official place names, each of which is administered by a separate public agency. The federal agencies that determine place names are the United States Postal Service, United States Census Bureau and United States Geological Survey.

It is critical to note that only incorporated places have definitive place names and often even they have naming conflicts. See the article on Zip Code for examples. Unfortunately, unincorporated places do not have definitive place names. Tornado is an excellent example of this. The United States Census Bureau calls Tornado the Upper Falls Census Designated Place. The United States Postal Service calls the community both Tornado and Upper Falls. The United States--West Virginian (talk) 05:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC) Geological Survey also gives Tornado the names Andrews Heights, Big Bend, Upper Falls and Upper Falls of Coal River and this is the most definitive source available! It must be noted that it is very routine for these official authorities to overlap and conflict with each other. Errors resulting from lack of knowledge and flaws in work flow, data and decision making at every level of government also play a significant role in creating confusion. Many other societies with different priorities devote the necessary resources to domestic infrastructure that allows them to avoid this kind of chaos.[reply]

The current state of this article reflects incremental updates that have not been maintained, poorly researched sources that conflict with United States Government official records and overall neglect. As a result, it is outdated, inaccurate, very conflicting and extremely confusing!

It is vital to recognize here that the multidisciplinary approach required to understand place names in the United States is at times very esoteric.

I will attempt to delineate the disparate names and agencies in this article into a cohesive whole that makes sense. Anyone reading this, please realize that creating order in the midst of chaos is a daunting task.

Before reactively clicking Undo, please post your comments here so that the Wikipedia community can reach consensus on the content of this article. Thpn (talk) 18:41, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Article

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Upper Falls, West Virginia is a new census designated place (CDP) created by the United States Census Bureau for the 2010 Census. It subsumes the Tornado, West Virginia CDP. I intend to move the content relating to Upper Falls that now appears at the Tornado, West Virginia article here. This should happen after 2011 January, when the 2010 Census results are published and the article here has been created. Thpn (talk) 22:19, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has been suggested that Tornado, West Virginia be merged into this article or section.

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Populated places within Upper Falls

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Upper Falls currently contains only three populated places. They are Ferrell, River Bend and Upper Falls. I submitted six new populated places to the United States Geological Survey, which have been approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names for inclusion in the Geographic Names Information System. I am currently awaiting the administrative addition of these new populated places. When this is complete, I will list them in the introduction of this article. For reference, this sentence will read: "The Upper Falls CDP contains the populated places of Angel Fork, Browns Creek, Chestnut Point, Dry Ridge, Ferrell, Gore Addition, Indian Head, River Bend and, of course, Upper Falls."Thpn (talk) 15:48, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am adding the populated places of Falls Creek and Smith Creek to this list and modifying Gore Addition to become Gore, with Gore Addition as a variant name. Therefore, when the administrative matters are concluded, the sentence to be added to the introduction of this article will read: "The Upper Falls CDP contains the populated places of Angel Fork, Browns Creek, Chestnut Point, Dry Ridge, Falls Creek, Ferrell, Gore, Indian Head, River Bend, Smith Creek and of course, Upper Falls."Thpn (talk) 21:39, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two more populated places were added, Coal River and Thomas Branch with the variant name Thomas Hollow. So, the sentence to be added to the introduction will finally read: "The Upper Falls CDP contains the populated places of Angel Fork, Browns Creek, Chestnut Point, Coal River, Dry Ridge, Falls Creek, Ferrell, Gore, Indian Head, River Bend, Smith Creek, Thomas Branch and of course, Upper Falls." Thpn (talk) 22:15, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that these populated places were never added to GNIS. This list is valuable, however, in that it documents the functional populated places within the Upper Falls Census Designated Place. Thpn (talk) 17:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]