Talk:Goerke's Corners, Wisconsin

Misleading the readers

The problem is that there is no longer any kind of community at that location; it's just a highway intersection with a park-and-ride lot. I don't want to go undoing the work of others, but there is no longer a there there: the old Storyville/Blodgett/Goerke's Corners community is gone. We need to use a template that reflects this better, not one which misleads folks. I invite your responses. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:13, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

I am wondering if there is an apartment building in the area? Also there is probably a sign put up by WisDOT indicating Goerke's Corners as being unincorporated. On my talk page The Catalyst mention this is an odd community having never been annexed or incorporated. I am leading towards the view that the state of Wisconsin considers this an unincorporated community. But it could be a no man's land because the various government bodies have not decided how this will end up as. Thank you-RFD (talk) 11:55, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

It's in the Town of Brookfield, which is sort of incorporated, like other Wisconsin townships, but after the turn of the previous century apparently was never a coherent community of its own: "Corners" in Wisconsin place names indicates a place was orginally a crossroads community, usually with an inn and a store or two. Unlike Hales Corners, Wisconsin, it didn't stay a place as suburbanization mushroomed around it. There is a housing development just north of where the Corners was, but it is standard curvy roads and new housing, built in the 1950s or later, and unrelated to the old Storyville/Blodgett/Goerke's Corners community in any way. The roads out of the development do not even feed to the main roads of the Corners. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:40, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

You have a point about the name "Corners". The area is an island of unincorporated land surrounded by municipalities, as can be seen on this map; since any land not in a city or village in Wisconsin is within a town, being within the Town of Brookfield doesn't make it part of an incorporated municipality. That doesn't always make it a community though, and since the housing developments aren't connected to the crossroads, there's nobody living there. The crossroads itself consists of a collection of national chain businesses and a park-and-ride lot with an established name, which seems more like a locality than a community to me, so "former community" probably is correct. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 22:22, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

In the town of Brookfield website reference was made to Goerkes Corners regarding directions to get around the town. The local residents probably still call the area Goerke's Corners.[1] My suggestion is to consider this an unincorporated community in a Wisconsin town. I am puzzle at times with some of the unincorporated communities in Wisconsin; one of them is East Winona, Wisconsin which serves as a terminal point for the railroad but back in the 19th and early 20th centuries probably had a hotel and store for the travelers. Thank you-RFD (talk) 17:19, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Look at the webpage more closely: the reference ("exit 297; Highway 18 (Bluemound Road) and Barker Road exit. This is also known as Goerke's Corners") is clearly not to a place, but to the confluence of three highways, which has gigantic US-govt.-funded highway signs describing that intersection as "Goerke's Corners". I started this article after researching why the intersection had that name, one more associated with actual settlements; this article reflects what I've found, which is that a term once used for an actual community now simply describes a highway intersection and a park-and-ride lot. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

After reading the Catalyst's comments, I am respecting Orangemike's comments on this. The only concern is that the GNIS lists Goerke's Corners as a community but as a locale. Does this means the GNIS has some outdated information about Goerke's Corners? Thank you-RFD (talk) 22:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

I've found problems like this with the GNIS before; in some cases, like Packard, Kentucky, the GNIS has listed a place as a community when other sources stated it was a ghost town. I consider the GNIS reliable in general, but I trust other reliable sources over it when I can find them about matters like this. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 01:06, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

This is slightly unrelated, but I felt like mentioning this cause it sort of relates this topic. I felt that the community of Bardwell, Wisconsin is sort of ghost town since its location based on the USGS is at a railroad junction with direct access to any roadways. Can someone help me understand this? NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 11:28, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

No direct access. Sorry, I forgot to say the word no. NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 11:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Pop Culture reference

I just added a pop culture reference (It's mentioned several times in a movie, and the last scene takes place there.) but didn't open a new section for it. It seems a tad pretentious to add a new section for just one item, but if anybody thinks it works better that way, feel free to change it. JDZeff (talk) 22:46, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't know who added the citation needed tag, as the information is available on the Wikipedia page for the movie. I'd think that an extra citation would be redundant, but I'll wait to see if anybody can justify the request for a citation. JDZeff (talk) 08:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)