AsOf

Union Pacific Corporation · founded1862-07-01

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What the statuses mean

Valid from
1862-07-01
Valid until
still holds
Published
no source on record carries a date
Recorded by AsOf
2026-11-10
Checked
2026-11-11 · its source page states the value and the date
Confidence
0.95

Sources

“Founded July 1, 1862, when President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, Union Pacific has been building America for more than 160 years.”— what the page says, read 2026-11-11

Cite this claim

Each form names the value, its as-of date (1862-07-01), the day you read it (2026-11-11), the claim's stable URL and id and its primary source. The URL never changes: a superseded claim stays at the same address.

Plain text
AsOf. "Union Pacific Corporation founded: 1862-07-01", as of 1862-07-01. Claim clm_D6C7A2E0A134, https://asof.is/claim/clm_D6C7A2E0A134, accessed 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.up.com/heritage/history/index.htm.
APA
AsOf. (1862). Union Pacific Corporation founded: 1862-07-01 (as of 1862-07-01) [Record clm_D6C7A2E0A134]. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://asof.is/claim/clm_D6C7A2E0A134 (source: https://www.up.com/heritage/history/index.htm)
BibTeX
@misc{asof_clm_D6C7A2E0A134,
  author = {AsOf},
  title = {Union Pacific Corporation founded: 1862-07-01},
  year = {1862},
  howpublished = {\url{https://asof.is/claim/clm_D6C7A2E0A134}},
  note = {Claim clm\_D6C7A2E0A134, as of 1862-07-01; source: https://www.up.com/heritage/history/index.htm},
  urldate = {2026-11-11}
}

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