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Altus-Denning School District

defunct school district in Arkansas, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ55106528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Altus-Denning School District No. 31 was a school district in Arkansas, serving Altus and Denning. It operated one school, the Altus-Denning School.

The school building was in Altus; it was administratively divided between an elementary school and a high school.

On July 1, 2004, it consolidated into the Ozark School District.

References

Further reading

This includes a map of the district:

"Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Franklin County, 1952-1954". Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. (Download[link removed])

External links

Altus-Denning School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Altus-Denning School District No.

Editorial summary

“Altus-Denning School District” enters the record as defunct school district in Arkansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Altus-Denning, School and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1952, 1954, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Altus-Denning, School and District.
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Why this record matters

“Altus-Denning School District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Altus-Denning, School and District provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55106528. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1952, 1954 and 2020.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Altus-Denning School District” 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.