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Kentucky Route 361

state highway in Kentucky, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ28186041 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kentucky Route 361 (KY 361) is a 16.463-mile-long (26.495 km) state highway in Hardin County, Kentucky, that runs from U.S. Route 31W in Elizabethtown the entrance to Fort Knox at Bullion Boulevard.

History

KY 361 was designated on December 19, 2014.

The original KY 361 ran from US 431 to US 79 in Russellville via Armstrong Street. This road was given to Logan County on October 25, 1982.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Hardin County.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kentucky Route 361” is state highway in Kentucky, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kentucky, Route and state, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2014, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kentucky, Route and state is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “state highway in Kentucky, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 May 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28186041. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kentucky Route 361” 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.