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Gorfotu

village in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ114012551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gorfotu is a village located about 45 km north of Dinajpur city in the northern part of Bangladesh. The last northern head of this village is the beginning of Panchagarh District. The Atrai River flows on the eastern side. Across the river is the Nilphamari District. Thakurgaon District is located about 20 km to the west.

Geography

The village is located in Shatgram Union No. 3 of Birganj Upazila of Dinajpur District.

The Atrai River flows through the eastern side of Gorfotu Village.

Economics

The village is mainly agricultural.

Education

The village has a government primary school named Gorfotu Government Primary School.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gorfotu” as village in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. 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 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gorfotu, village and Dinajpur can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. 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 Jul 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q114012551. Authority coordinates are 25.983, 88.550. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

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.

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 “Gorfotu”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gorfotu primary sources, Gorfotu archive and Gorfotu 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 “Gorfotu”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gorfotu” 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.