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New Mexico State Road 508

highway in New Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ59216590 ↗
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State Road 508 (NM 508) is a 17.227-mile-long (27.724 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 508's western terminus is at NM 206 north of Tatum, and the eastern terminus is at NM 125 northeast of Tatum.

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The entire route is in Lea County.

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The public source identifies “New Mexico State Road 508” as highway in New Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mexico, State and Road.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. 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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mexico, State and Road providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 508” 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.