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Kentucky Route 587

state highway in Kentucky, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ65057996 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kentucky Route 587 (KY 587) is a 22.962-mile-long (36.954 km) state highway that travels from U.S. Route 421 (US 421) and Jackson County High School Road west of Smith to KY 11 southwest of Congleton via Smith, New Zion, Arvel, Delvinta, and Ida May.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kentucky Route 587” as state highway in Kentucky, 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 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kentucky, Route and state can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state highway in Kentucky, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 May 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65057996. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kentucky Route 587” 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.