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Kangasvuori

district of Jyväskylä, Finland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ18659824
Source-derived summary

Kangasvuori is a district and a statistical area of Jyväskylä, Finland. The statistical area forms the Huhtasuo ward together with Huhtasuo and the Vääräjärvi suburb of Ankeriasjärvi. Kangasvuori was mostly built during 1965–1976, making it the oldest suburban area in the ward.

The statistical area of Kangasvuori is officially divided into five sub-districts (pienalue): Seppälä, Pupuhuhta, Rasinrinne, Läntinen Kangasvuori and Itäinen Kangasvuori. Seppälä is a commercial area, Pupuhuhta is a suburb built in the 1970s. The construction of Rasinrinne started in the 1990s. Läntinen Kangasvuori is dominated by apartment buildings that were built in 1960s and 1970s, whereas Itäinen Kangasvuori mostly consists of row houses and single-family houses along with some apartment buildings.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kangasvuori” is district of Jyväskylä, Finland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kangasvuori, district and Jyväskylä, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kangasvuori, district and Jyväskylä is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “district of Jyväskylä, Finland” 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

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 Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18659824. Authority coordinates are 62.262, 25.790. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1976.

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 “Kangasvuori”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kangasvuori primary sources, Kangasvuori archive and Kangasvuori 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 “Kangasvuori”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Kangasvuori” 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.