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Nevada State Route 48

former state highway in Nevada, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ886563 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 48 is the previous designation for State Routes 399 and 854 from Interstate 80 (U.S. Route 40, State Route 1) at Lovelock northwest to near Eagle Picher Mine, then northwest along an unimproved road to meet former State Route 49 east of Gerlach.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nevada State Route 48” as former state highway in Nevada, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 45-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 Nevada, State and Route 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 former state highway in Nevada, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 May 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q886563. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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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 “Nevada State Route 48” 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.