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U.S. Route 66

former U.S. Numbered Highway in the United States
Place road Q79934

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
road
Inception
November 11, 1926[13]
Country
United States[10]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 39.007°, -89.779°
Date of official closure
June 27, 1985[23]
Date of official opening
November 11, 1926[19]
Described by source
Great journeys: travel the world's most spectacular routes[16]
Hashtag
Route66[22]
Length
+2448[21]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Named after
Will Rogers[12]
P14541
1CArOb[24]
Partially coincident with
Historic Route 66[18]
Replaced by
Historic Route 66[17]
Road number
US 66[20]
Terminus location
Santa Monica, Chicago[14][15]
Transport network
United States Numbered Highway System[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en U.S. 66 en Will Rogers Highway en US Route 66 en U.S. Route 66 en US Highway 66 en US 66 en Route 66 en Rt. 66 en the Main Street of America en the Mother Road ar طريق الولايات المتحدة 66 cs US Route 66 cs U.S. Route 66 de U.S. Route 66 de U.S. Highway 66 de US Route 66 es Ruta de los Estados Unidos 66 es Autopista Will Rogers es El Camino Madre es La Calle Principal de América
🔖 Identifiers · 32
VIAF cluster ID
239123146, 315527102
Library of Congress authority ID
sh88002477
GND ID
4290117-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Route66 2004.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
6eb53524-cea7-4526-9199-4f478d24ef96
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
125515150
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
562077
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID
tra.032
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Route-66
FAST ID
1247736
FactGrid item ID
Jabuke
Freebase ID
/m/0kpw3
Show all 32 identifiers +20
Google Doodle
celebrating-route-66, celebrating-the-route-66-centennial
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Route_66
IdRef ID
08612773X
Kansapedia ID
34572452
NE.se ID
route-66
NL CR AUT ID
ge687926
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000788604
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007539113305171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX5648871
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2740519
OpenStreetMap node ID
5401536922
Quora topic ID
Route-66
SVKKL authority ID
0331258-Route-66-Spojene-staty-americke
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID
RO037
Topic's main category
Category:U.S. Route 66
Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
ADV11714557
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["HistoricalEvent", "Route66Established1926"]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmdyqpCk4tpTVFtjVbDbd
YSO ID
111483, 11591
Yale LUX ID
place/3879a49c-6e57-4f29-9d87-3250c615735b
🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 8
California, Texas, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico
Terminus location 2
Chicago, Santa Monica
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
road
Named after 1
Will Rogers
Topic's main category 1
Category:U.S. Route 66
Transport network 1
United States Numbered Highway System
← Carries thoroughfare 1
Rio Puerco Bridge
← Category's main topic 1
Category:U.S. Route 66
← Depicts 1
The Grapes of Wrath
← Located on street 1
Gardner
← Main subject 1
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Summary

U.S. Route 66 is a road[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Missouri emerging0.87contested4 independent sources

evidence “It’s the longest continuously operating roadside park in the state of Missouri on Route 66.” aarp.org · read source

Located in the administrative territorial entity Arizona emerging0.83contested3 independent sources

evidence “Not long after, Angel Delgadillo, a barber in Seligman, Arizona, helped form the Historic Route 66 Association, which persuaded the state to erect “Historic Route 66” signs to draw tourists back to the towns.” bostonglobe.com · read source

Located in the administrative territorial entity Oklahoma emerging0.76contested2 independent sources

evidence “If you head farther west on Route 66, you’ll land in Clinton, Oklahoma.” news9.com · read source

Located in the administrative territorial entity Illinois emerging0.76contested2 independent sources

evidence “Illinois communities celebrate Route 66’s centennial” wsiu.org · read source

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Located in the administrative territorial entity Santa Monica low0.142 independent sources

evidence “The official end of Route 66 is at the intersection of Lincoln and Olympic Boulevards in Santa Monica.” bostonglobe.com · read source

Related Entities

Arizona California Illinois Kansas Missouri New Mexico Oklahoma Texas The Grapes of Wrath United States Will Rogers

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 29d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 56
    BBC Things ID → 6eb53524-cea7-4526-9199-4f478d24ef96
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'bar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et',
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  2. 8w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap node ID → 5401536922
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap node ID: 5401536922, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/5401536922 in United States"
  3. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1CArOb
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  4. 19w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    FactGrid item ID → Jabuke
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ FactGrid item ID: Q1792433, adds FactGrid ID"
  5. 20w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0331258-Route-66-Spojene-staty-americke
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0331258-Route-66-Spojene-staty-americke, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 26w ago · Madamebiblio · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image last checked license → —
    Inception → —
    Named after → —
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of U.S. Route 66
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Google Doodle: celebrating-the-route-66-centennial"
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