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List of county routes in Tompkins County, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ6614398 ↗
Source-derived summary

County routes in Tompkins County, New York, are signed with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon route marker.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “List of county routes in Tompkins County, New York” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around List, county and routes.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, county and routes providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of county routes in Tompkins County, New York” 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.