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Kumadi Forest Park

Forest Park in The Gambia.

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 revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ926399 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kumadi Forest Park is a forest park in the Gambia. It covers 283 hectares.

The area is located in the North Bank region in the Jokadu district and was set up like the other forest parks in Gambia on January 1, 1954.

The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is 20 metres.

Editorial summary

“Kumadi Forest Park” enters the record as forest Park in The Gambia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kumadi, Forest and Park 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—1954—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kumadi, Forest and Park.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kumadi Forest Park” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kumadi, Forest and Park 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 Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q926399. Authority coordinates are 13.503, -16.206. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Kumadi Forest Park”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kumadi Forest Park primary sources, Kumadi Forest Park archive and Kumadi 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 “Kumadi Forest Park”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kumadi Forest Park” 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.