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Wisconsin Highway 192

former state highway in Wisconsin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ104834884 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wisconsin Highway 192 (WIS 192) was a short state highway in Wisconsin. It traveled from WIS 50 to WIS 43 (later WIS 142 to Interstate 43).

Route description

Starting at WIS 50, WIS 192 began to travel northward. Going north to the southeast corner of the Kenosha Regional Airport, it then intersected WIS 158. Going further north, it then ended at WIS 142 (now CTH-S).

History

Starting in 1947, WIS 192 was formed. Initially, it traveled from WIS 50 to WIS 43. During its existence, its routing had not been changed significantly. Meanwhile, in 1974, WIS 43 became WIS 142 due to the creation of I-43. In 1990, the route became decommissioned.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wisconsin Highway 192” as former state highway in Wisconsin. 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1974, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wisconsin, Highway and former can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former state highway in Wisconsin. 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 May 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q104834884. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1974 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wisconsin Highway 192” 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.