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Iowa Highway 93

state highway in Iowa, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1427331
Source-derived summary

Iowa Highway 93 is a state highway that runs from east to west through two counties in northeastern Iowa. Iowa 93 is 29.55 miles (47.56 km) long. The eastern terminus of Iowa 93 is at its junction with Iowa Highway 150 in Fayette. The western terminus of Iowa 93 is at an intersection with U.S. Route 63 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Tripoli.

Route description

Iowa Highway 93 begins at U.S. Highway 63 four miles (6.4 km) west of Tripoli, entering on 7th Avenue. At Tripoli, Highway 93 turns north onto Main Street and heads through the heart of town. North of Tripoli, Iowa 93 travels a 2-mile (3.2 km) stretch of highway, crossing the Wapsipinicon River before curving to the northeast and then to the east. Once again heading east, Iowa 93 travels 7 miles (11 km) to Sumner. East of Sumner, Iowa 93 journeys east through Fayette County for 15 miles (24 km) until it ends at Iowa Highway 150 at Fayette.

History

By 1926, Primary Road No.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iowa Highway 93” as state highway in Iowa, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1926—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iowa, Highway and state can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state highway in Iowa, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1427331. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from Iowa Highway 93” 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.