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Gold-Burg Independent School District

school district in Texas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ5578505 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gold-Burg Independent School District is a public school district in northwestern Montague County, Texas (USA). A small portion of the district extends into northeastern Clay County.

The district's name is a conglomerate of the two unincorporated communities that it serves – "Gold" from Ringgold and "Burg" from Stoneburg.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

Schools

Gold-Burg Junior High/High School (Grades K–12; Located in Stoneburg)

Special programs

Athletics

Gold-Burg High School plays six-man football.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gold-Burg Independent School District” as school district in Texas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gold-Burg, Independent and School can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Texas. 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 Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5578505. Authority coordinates are 33.674, -97.904. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Gold-Burg Independent School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gold-Burg Independent School District primary sources, Gold-Burg Independent School District archive and Gold-Burg 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 “Gold-Burg Independent School District”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gold-Burg Independent 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.