A fact from Glencoe, Oregon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 March 2008, and was viewed approximately 600 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that much of Glencoe, Oregon, was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town?
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Shedd is similar in that Boston, Oregon picked up and moved to Shedd because of the railroad. Not sure that merits a "See also" but the phenomenon might be interesting to note in Rail transport in Oregon or elsewhere. Katr67 (talk) 23:29, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the category from "Unicorporated Communities" to "Former settlements" in Oregon. Long ago it was a separate town from Hillsboro. The town's buildings moved away to North Plains, and these days, the site of Glencoe is just considered a neighborhood of Hillsboro, and is no longer a community in and of itself.Tsarevna (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to restore it so it's in both categories as an aid to navigation. As you've explained, the article is clear about its status but its current location is also listed as a populated place in GNIS and as a separate locale with a dot on the USGS maps. If it were listed by GNIS as "historic", e.g. it was totally gone, underwater, etc., I'd be more apt to put it solely in the former settlements cat. Cheers, Katr67 (talk) 20:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Former settlements are for completely abandoned places, which is not the case here. I will mention that it is more apt to describe it as neighborhood of North Plains, as that city is pretty much across the street. I previously thought Glencoe was next to the high school, but it is not. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
