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New Mexico State Road 480

highway in New Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ58585147 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Road 480 (NM 480) is a 13.084-mile-long (21.057 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 480's western terminus is at NM 330 north of Elida, and the eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 70 (US 70) southwest of Portales.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Roosevelt County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “New Mexico State Road 480” as highway in New Mexico. 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 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mexico, State and Road 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 New Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q58585147. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 480” 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.