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Shady Brook, Kansas

human settlement in Kansas, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ7460886 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shady Brook is an unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. It is located at the intersection of 1000 Ave and Trail Rd.

History

Shady Brook (spelled historically Shadybrook) had a post office from 1901 until 1907.

Education

The west side of Trail Rd is served by Rural Vista USD 481 public school district, the east side of Trail Rd is served by Herington USD 487 public school district.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shady Brook, Kansas” as human settlement in Kansas, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1000, 1901, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shady, Brook and Kansas can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Kansas, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jul 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7460886. Authority coordinates are 38.739, -96.983. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1000, 1901 and 1907.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shady Brook, Kansas” 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.