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KILJ (AM)

radio station in Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ14689164 ↗
Source-derived summary

KILJ (1130 AM) is a commercial radio station serving the Mount Pleasant, Iowa area. The station primarily broadcasts a country music format. KILJ is licensed to KILJ, Inc.

In addition to the music, the station provides national, state and local news, along with high school and college sports, weather, and grain and livestock markets.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “KILJ (AM)” as radio station in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KILJ, radio and station.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1130—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with KILJ, radio and station providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “KILJ (AM)”, the useful work is to connect “radio station in Mount Pleasant, Iowa” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14689164. The first chronological checks are 1130.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “KILJ (AM)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow KILJ (AM) primary sources, KILJ (AM) archive and KILJ research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “KILJ (AM)” 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.