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New Mexico State Road 472

state highway in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ59216607 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Road 472 (NM 472) is a 11.975-mile-long (19.272 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 472's western terminus is at NM 344 north of Edgewood, and the eastern terminus is at NM 41 in Stanley.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Santa Fe County.

Editorial summary

“New Mexico State Road 472” enters the record as state highway in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mexico, State and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 50-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mexico, State and Road.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“New Mexico State Road 472” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mexico, State and Road provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q59216607. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “New Mexico State Road 472”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow New Mexico State Road 472 primary sources, New Mexico State Road 472 archive and Mexico research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “New Mexico State Road 472”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 472” 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.