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Deerfield Texaco Service Station

petrol station in Deerfield, Kansas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ14689455 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Deerfield Texaco Service Station, at 105 W. 6th in Deerfield, Kansas, is a historic one-story service station built in 1923 on the old U.S. Highway 50. It was deemed significant for association with economic development and transportation in Deerfield, and for its Tudor Revival architecture.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deerfield Texaco Service Station” as petrol station in Deerfield, Kansas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923. The account is most persuasive where Deerfield, Texaco and Service can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as petrol station in Deerfield, Kansas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14689455. Authority coordinates are 37.980, -101.132. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923 and 2007.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Deerfield Texaco Service Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Deerfield Texaco Service Station primary sources, Deerfield Texaco Service Station archive and Deerfield research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Deerfield Texaco Service Station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Deerfield Texaco Service 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.