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Louisiana State Route 7-X

former highway in Louisiana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ2434435 ↗
Source-derived summary

Louisiana State Route 7 had multiple suffixed routes, designating bypassed alignments of the highway. They are listed below in order from west to east.

Elton (LA 7-D)

Louisiana State Route 7-D (LA 7-D) spanned 1.90 miles (3.06 km) from west to east and was known as Yoakum Street and Kennedy Road. It served as the older alignment of LA 7 through Elton.

Junction list

The entire highway is in Elton, Jefferson Davis Parish.

Lawtell (LA 7-E)

Louisiana State Route 7-E (LA 7-E) spanned 3.90 miles (6.28 km) from west to east and was known as Summer Road. It served as the older alignment of LA 7 near Lawtell.

Junction list

The entire highway is in Lawtell, Saint Landry Parish.

Opelousas (LA 7-H)

Louisiana State Route 7-H (LA 7-H) spanned 2.10 miles (3.38 km) from west to east. It served as the older alignment of LA 7 near Opelousas.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 148-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 Louisiana, State and Route can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former highway in Louisiana. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louisiana State Route 7-X” 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.