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Orem High School

public high school in northeast Orem, Utah, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7101530
Source-derived summary

Orem High School is a high school in Orem, Utah, part of the Alpine School District. It was originally built in 1956, and has since undergone major renovations. The old school building was torn down and a replacement was built in what was the former building's parking lot, in 2010.

Editorial summary

“Orem High School” enters the record as public high school in northeast Orem, Utah, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orem, High and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Orem, High and School.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7101530. VIAF identifies the subject as 307457340. The Library of Congress control number is no2014012676. Authority coordinates are 40.293, -111.685. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Orem 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.