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Iowa Highway 59

list of roads or other routes with the same name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ85846182 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iowa Highway 59 (Iowa 59) was the designation of a state highway in Iowa that ran from the Missouri state line near Cincinnati to the Minnesota state line near Chester. Iowa 59 was in existence for fourteen years—from 1920 to 1934.

Editorial summary

“Iowa Highway 59” enters the record as list of roads or other routes with the same name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Iowa, Highway and list can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1920, 1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Iowa, Highway and list.
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“Iowa Highway 59” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Iowa, Highway and list provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85846182. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iowa Highway 59” 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.