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South Dakota Highway 144

state highway in South Dakota, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ65068488 ↗
Source-derived summary

South Dakota Highway 144 (SD 144) is a short highway linking the town of Akaska to U.S. Highway 83 and SD 20. It was commissioned in 1976. This was originally the western terminus of SD 20 in the early 1950s, and became a spur of SD 20 between 1965 and 1970.

Route description

Highway 144 begins at a junction with Riley Avenue in Akaska. The road travels east from Akaska, and ends at U.S. Highway 83/South Dakota Highway 20.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Walworth County.

Editorial summary

“South Dakota Highway 144” enters the record as state highway in South Dakota, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, Dakota and Highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1965, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around South, Dakota and Highway.
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Why this record matters

“South Dakota Highway 144” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, South, Dakota and Highway provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65068488. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1965 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “South Dakota Highway 144” 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.