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Taft, Tennessee

human settlement in Lincoln County, Tennessee, 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 revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7675020 ↗
Source-derived summary

Taft is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States. The community has a post office with ZIP code 38488. Taft is located at the intersection of State Route 110 (Ardmore Highway) and State Route 274 (Old Railroad Bed Road).

Editorial summary

“Taft, Tennessee” enters the record as human settlement in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Taft, Tennessee and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 41-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 Taft, Tennessee and human.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Taft, Tennessee” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Taft, Tennessee and human provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7675020. Authority coordinates are 35.021, -86.718. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Taft, Tennessee”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Taft, Tennessee primary sources, Taft, Tennessee archive and Taft 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 “Taft, Tennessee”?
  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 “Taft, Tennessee” 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.