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Nevada State Route 339

highway in Nevada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ887196 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 339 (SR 339) is a 11.523-mile-long (18.544 km) state highway in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. It starts at State Route 208 east of Wilson Canyon and it parallels that route to the west north to U.S. 95 Alternate (Goldfield Avenue) in Yerington.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Lyon County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nevada State Route 339” as highway in Nevada. 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 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-12-31. 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 highway in Nevada. 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 Jul 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q887196. Authority coordinates are 38.912, -119.196. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nevada State Route 339” 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.