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Green Consolidated School

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5602430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Green Consolidated School near Valley City, North Dakota, United States, "is the best preserved open country consolidated school in North Dakota." It served during 1916 to 1974.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1974, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Green, Consolidated and School providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5602430. Authority coordinates are 46.849, -98.122. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1974 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Green Consolidated School” 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.