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Kentucky Route 388

state highway in Kentucky

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ20988165 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kentucky Route 388 (KY 388) is a 12.937-mile (20.820 km) state highway in Madison County, Kentucky, that runs from U.S. Route 25 Business, Kentucky Route 52, and South Second Street in downtown Richmond to Kentucky Route 627 just to the west of Boonesborough. The route passes through Fort Boonesborough State Park, and also comes within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of Clark County.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Madison County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kentucky Route 388” as state highway in Kentucky. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 71-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.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state highway in Kentucky. 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 Q20988165. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

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  2. Expand the search: follow Kentucky Route 388 primary sources, Kentucky Route 388 archive and Kentucky research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kentucky Route 388” 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.