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Gurley, Louisiana

human settlement in Louisiana, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5620140 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gurley is an unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, on Louisiana Highway 963. Gurley is located ten miles from the state of Mississippi.

Education

Gurley is served by the East Feliciana Parish School Board headquartered in Clinton.

Historical significance

Gurley is the location of Oakland Plantation House, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Businesses

According to the Gurley Chamber of Commerce, there are 506 businesses.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gurley, Louisiana” is human settlement in Louisiana, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gurley, Louisiana and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gurley, Louisiana and human is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5620140. Authority coordinates are 30.869, -91.134. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gurley, Louisiana” 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.