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New Mexico State Road 116

state highway in Socorro and Valencia counties in New Mexico, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ58409927 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Road 116 (NM 116) is a 15.792 miles (25.415 km) long state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 116's northern terminus is at I-25 Bus. south of Belen, and the southern terminus is in Bernardo at U.S. Route 60 (US 60).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “New Mexico State Road 116” is state highway in Socorro and Valencia counties in New Mexico, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mexico, State and Road, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mexico, State and Road is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “state highway in Socorro and Valencia counties in New Mexico, United States” 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.

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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 May 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q58409927. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 116” 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.