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Alabama State Route 269

highway in Alabama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ876596 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 269 (SR 269) is a 41-mile-long (66 km) route that extends northwestward from Birmingham to Jasper. The route runs west of Interstate 22 (I-22) and roughly parallels that route. Other towns along the route include Maytown, Sylvan Springs, and Parrish.

Route Description

The southern terminus of SR 269 is at the junction with I-20/I-59 at Exit 120 in western Birmingham. The route leads through the Ensley community along 20th Street, passing by the former U.S. Steel Ensley works. After leaving Birmingham, the route leads through several small communities in western Jefferson County into Walker County. The northern terminus of the route is at its junction with SR 69 west of Jasper.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alabama State Route 269” as highway in Alabama. 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 113-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alabama, State and Route can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as highway in Alabama. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q876596. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alabama State Route 269” 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.