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North Decatur Junior-Senior High School

high school in Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ23017124 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Decatur Junior-Senior High School is a middle school and high school located in Greensburg, Indiana.

Athletics

While the majority of sports at North Decatur Junior-Senior High School compete in the Mid-Hoosier Conference, the football program competes in the Mid-Indiana Football Conference.

Editorial summary

“North Decatur Junior-Senior High School” enters the record as high school in Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what North, Decatur and Junior-Senior can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 42-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967. Its strongest next move is a source search built around North, Decatur and Junior-Senior.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“North Decatur Junior-Senior High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, North, Decatur and Junior-Senior provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23017124. Authority coordinates are 39.383, -85.478. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “North Decatur Junior-Senior High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow North Decatur Junior-Senior High School primary sources, North Decatur Junior-Senior High School archive and North 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 “North Decatur Junior-Senior High School”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “North Decatur Junior-Senior High School” 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.