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Lone Ranch Beach

beach near Brookings, Oregon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ17035037 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lone Ranch Beach is a beach administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, as it is part of the Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor.

The beach is located near Brookings, Oregon, along the U.S. Route 101.

See also

List of Oregon state parks

References

External links

"Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor map" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Retrieved May 21, 2014.

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“Lone Ranch Beach” enters the record as beach near Brookings, Oregon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lone, Ranch and Beach can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lone, Ranch and Beach.
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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 Jul 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17035037. Authority coordinates are 42.098, -124.343. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lone Ranch Beach” 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.