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Alabama State Route 195

highway in Alabama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ875883 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 195 (SR 195) is a 42.179-mile-long (67.881 km) highway running mainly in a north and south direction through two counties, Winston and Walker in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Route description

The southern terminus of SR 195 is located at its intersection with SR 5 in Jasper. From this point the route travels in a north-northwest direction in intersecting SR 257 and traversing the William B. Bankhead National Forest en route to Double Springs. In Double Springs, SR 195 has a .195-mile (0.314 km) concurrency with US 278 prior to resuming its northerly route. The route continues in its northwesterly route through its intersection with SR 243 where it turns to the southwest en route to its northern terminus at SR 13 in Haleyville.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alabama State Route 195” is highway in Alabama. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alabama, State and Route, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 126-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alabama, State and Route is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “highway in Alabama” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q875883. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Alabama State Route 195 primary sources, Alabama State Route 195 archive and Alabama research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alabama State Route 195” 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.