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Nebraska Highway 103

highway in Nebraska

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2394282
Source-derived summary

Nebraska Highway 103 is a highway in southeastern Nebraska. It is a discontinuous highway with two segments. The southern segment begins at Nebraska Highway 8 south of Diller and ends at U.S. Highway 136 north of Diller. The northern segment begins at Nebraska Highway 4 east of Plymouth and ends at Interstate 80 north of Pleasant Dale.

Route description

Northern segment

The northern segment of Nebraska Highway 103 begins at N-4, east of Plymouth. It heads in a northerly direction through farmland, turning briefly to the northwest as it passes through De Witt. After leaving De Witt, N-103 continues heading northward. In Wilber, it intersects with N-41. The highway continues heading north and slightly to the northwest until it meets N-33 in Crete. It runs concurrently with N-33 for about 3.5 miles (5.6 km), passing through Crete.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nebraska Highway 103” as highway in Nebraska. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 137-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936. The account is most persuasive where Nebraska, Highway and highway 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 highway in Nebraska. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2394282. Authority coordinates are 42.269, -103.667. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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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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This entry incorporates text from Nebraska Highway 103” 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.