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Iowa Highway 102

State highway in Iowa, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Iowa Highway 102 is a very short state highway entirely within the city of New Sharon, Iowa. The entire 0.5-mile (0.80 km) route is along Market Street in New Sharon. The route begins at New Sharon's western city limit where it continues as Mahaska County Road G5T and ends at the corner of Market and Main Streets in New Sharon, where U.S. Route 63 and Iowa Highway 146 intersect.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Iowa Highway 102” as state highway in Iowa, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Iowa, Highway and State.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Iowa, Highway and State providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Iowa Highway 102”, the useful work is to connect “state highway in Iowa, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Nov 25, 2025.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iowa Highway 102” 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.