Kuroho, Gunma
dissolved municipality in Tone district, Gunma prefecture, Japan
Kuroho (久呂保村, Kuroho-mura) was a village located in Tone District, northeastern Gunma Prefecture.
Geography
River：Tone River, Katashina River, 入沢川, 大久保川
History
April 1, 1889 - Due to the municipal status enforcement, the villages of Kawahake(川額), Tochikubo(栃久保), and Morishita(森下) merged to form the village of Kuroho, Kitaseta District.
April 1, 1896 - Due to the district mergers (merger between Kitaseta and Tone Districts), the village belongs to Tone District.
November 1, 1958 - Merged with the village of Itonose, Tone District, to become the village of Showa, Tone District.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kuroho, Gunma” is dissolved municipality in Tone district, Gunma prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kuroho, Gunma and dissolved, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “dissolved municipality in Tone district, Gunma prefecture, Japan” 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.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6446307. Authority coordinates are 36.615, 139.052. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889, 1896 and 1958.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kuroho, Gunma” 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.