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Texas State Highway 217

highway in Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ2504094 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Highway 217 (SH 217) is a Texas state highway running from Canyon east to the Palo Duro Canyon State Park where it becomes Texas Park Road 5. The route was designated on May 29, 1935.

Junction list

The entire route is in Randall County.

Editorial summary

“Texas State Highway 217” enters the record as highway in Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Texas, State 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—1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Texas, State and Highway.
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Why this record matters

“Texas State Highway 217” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Texas, State and Highway 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 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2504094. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Texas State Highway 217” 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.