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Nevada State Route 319

Highway in Nevada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

State Route 319 is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada. The route connects the town of Panaca to Modena, Utah. SR 319 has been part of the state highway system since at least 1932, and was part of the longer State Route 25 prior to the late 1970s.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nevada State Route 319” is highway in Nevada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nevada, State and Route, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nevada, State and Route is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “highway in Nevada” 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.

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 Apr 26, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1932.

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 319”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nevada State Route 319 primary sources, Nevada State Route 319 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 319”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Nevada State Route 319” 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.