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West Virginia Route 20

state highway in West Virginia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ2508407 ↗
Source-derived summary

West Virginia Route 20 is a major north–south state highway in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 52 in Bluewell, a small unincorporated suburb of Bluefield. The northern terminus is at West Virginia Route 7 three miles (5 km) east of New Martinsville. WV Route 20 is the longest state route in West Virginia.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “West Virginia Route 20” is state highway in West Virginia, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through West, Virginia and Route, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, West, Virginia and Route is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “state highway in West Virginia, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2508407. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “West Virginia Route 20” 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.