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New Mexico State Road 223

highway in New Mexico

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ58813581 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Road 223 (NM 223) is a 2.184-mile-long (3.515 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 223's western terminus is at NM 63 and the eastern terminus of NM 50 in Pecos, and NM 223's eastern terminus is a continuation as County Route B64 (CR B64) east-northeast of Pecos.

Major intersections

The entire route is in San Miguel County.

Editorial summary

“New Mexico State Road 223” enters the record as highway in New Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mexico, State and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mexico, State and Road.
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Why this record matters

“New Mexico State Road 223” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mexico, State and Road provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q58813581. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 223” 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.