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Alkali Flat/La Valentina station

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4727633 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alkali Flat/La Valentina station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line of the SacRT light rail system operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District. The station is located alongside 12th Street at its intersection with D Street, in the Alkali Flat Historic District, after which the station is named, in the city of Sacramento, California.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alkali Flat/La Valentina station” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alkali, Flat and Valentina, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987. For this dossier, Alkali, Flat and Valentina is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alkali Flat/La Valentina station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.