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Nevada State Route 306

State highway in Nevada, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

State Route 306 is a 30.631-mile (49.296 km) state highway in Lander and Eureka counties in northern Nevada, United States. It connects the mining area of Gold Acres in Lander County to Interstate 80 (I-80) at the Beowawe Interchange near Beowawe in Eureka County via Crescent Valley. The road has been a state highway since the 1920s, having been established as part of a much longer State Route 21 by 1929.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nevada State Route 306” as state highway in Nevada, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nevada, State and Route can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state highway in Nevada, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1929.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Nevada State Route 306”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nevada State Route 306 primary sources, Nevada State Route 306 archive and Nevada 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 “Nevada State Route 306”?
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  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Nevada State Route 306” 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.