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Tennessee State Route 267

highway in Tennessee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ85805745
Source-derived summary

State Route 267 (SR 267), also known as Statesville Road, is a short secondary state highway in Wilson County, Tennessee, that connects SR 96 with U.S. Route 70 (US 70).

Route description

SR 267 begins in the community of Prosperity at an intersection with SR 96. It winds its way northwest through farmland to pass through the community of Statesville. SR 267 then turns northward winds its way through some hills before entering the town of Watertown and coming to an end at an intersection with US 70 (Sparta Pike / SR 26). The entire route of SR 267 is a two-lane highway.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Wilson County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tennessee State Route 267” as highway in Tennessee. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 112-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 Tennessee, 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 highway in Tennessee. 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 Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85805745. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Tennessee State Route 267” 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.