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Wisconsin Highway 51

state highway in Wisconsin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ8027197 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Trunk Highway 51 (often called Highway 51, STH-51 or WIS 51) was a number assigned to two different state highways in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:

Highway 51 from 1917 to 1923, along the current route of U.S. Highway 63 from Turtle Lake to Spooner.

Highway 51 from 1923 to 1936, currently routed as Highway 72 from Ellsworth to Downsville.

For the highway in Wisconsin numbered 51 since 1926, see U.S. Highway 51.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Wisconsin Highway 51” as state highway in Wisconsin. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wisconsin, Highway and state.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1923, 1936, 1926—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wisconsin, Highway and state providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Wisconsin Highway 51”, the useful work is to connect “state highway in Wisconsin” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8027197. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1923, 1936 and 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wisconsin Highway 51” 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.