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Arkansas Highway 368

highway in Arkansas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ2431607 ↗
Source-derived summary

Highway 368 (AR 368, Ark. 368, and Hwy. 368) is an east–west state highway in South Arkansas. The route of 6.90 miles (11.10 km) runs essentially as a northern loop of Arkansas Highway 24 through Reader while Highway 24 runs more southerly through Bluff City. The route is maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).

Route description

The route connects the community of Reader to the state highway system. Highway 368 begins at Arkansas Highway 24 in Nevada County east of Prescott and runs east to Reader. The route passes the Reader Railroad Depot and Reader Park before it turns south after an intersection with Main Street. It terminates after running through forest land at Highway 24.

History

The route was created by the Arkansas State Highway Commission on November 23, 1966.

Editorial summary

“Arkansas Highway 368” enters the record as highway in Arkansas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arkansas, Highway and highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-11-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Arkansas, Highway and highway.
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“Arkansas Highway 368” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Arkansas, Highway and highway provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arkansas Highway 368” 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.