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Regional School Unit 22

school district in Maine, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ14715231 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Regional School Unit 22 (R.S.U. 22), known as Maine School Administrative District 22 (M.S.A.D. 22) before July 1, 2013, is a school district in the U.S. state of Maine, serving residents of the towns of Hampden, Newburgh, Winterport, and Frankfort.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Regional School Unit 22” as school district in Maine, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Regional, School and Unit can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Maine, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14715231. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “Regional School Unit 22”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Regional School Unit 22 primary sources, Regional School Unit 22 archive and Regional 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 “Regional School Unit 22”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Regional School Unit 22” 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.