Hawaii Route 76
state highway in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Route 76 or Fort Weaver Road is a major north–south highway on the island of Oʻahu which begins at Interstate H-1 (H-1) in Waipahu and ends in ʻEwa Beach.
Route description
Route 76 is the main thoroughfare from the Ewa Beach community to H-1. Along the route is an intersection with Farrington Highway, Hawaii Medical Center West, West Loch Golf Course, Ewa Gentry, Laulani Park and Holomua Elementary School.
History
Fort Weaver Road is 6.0 miles (9.7 km) long and runs through Ewa Beach. Fort Weaver Road was completed in June 1982.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Honolulu County.
The public source identifies “Hawaii Route 76” as state highway in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hawaii, Route and state.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hawaii Route 76”, the useful work is to connect “state highway in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
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 May 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2239538. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.
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
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Hawaii Route 76” 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.