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KMPB

radio station in Breckenridge, Colorado

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ14684763 ↗
Source-derived summary

KMPB (90.7 FM, is a radio station broadcasting a public radio news, talk and music format. Licensed to Breckenridge, Colorado, United States, the station is currently owned by Community Radio for Northern Colorado.

History

The station was assigned the call letters KRKM on April 2, 2008. Its call sign changed to KMPB on February 1, 2010.

Editorial summary

“KMPB” enters the record as radio station in Breckenridge, Colorado. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KMPB, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. Its strongest next move is a source search built around KMPB, radio and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“KMPB” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, KMPB, radio and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14684763. Authority coordinates are 39.496, -106.029. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2010.

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “KMPB”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow KMPB primary sources, KMPB archive and KMPB 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

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “KMPB”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “KMPB” 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.