Missouri Route 120
state highway in Holt County, Missouri, United States
Route 120 is a short state highway in Holt County, Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at Route B about eight miles (13 km) northeast of Oregon. Its western terminus is at U.S. Route 59 about three miles (4.8 km) west of its eastern terminus. No towns are along the highway.
Route description
Route 120 begins at an intersection with US 59 north of Oregon, heading east on a two-lane undivided road. The route passes through agricultural land with some trees, curving to the southeast before heading east again. Route 120 comes to its eastern terminus at an intersection with Route B just north of New Point.
History
What is now Route 120 began as a simple dirt road, resembling the current course of the present highway. Two schoolhouses and one cemetery were along the route at the end of the 19th Century. After the United States Postal Service began rural mail delivery from Oregon in 1901, Rural Free Delivery was provided west of New Point on a route called Oregon R.F.D. No.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Missouri Route 120” is state highway in Holt County, Missouri, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Missouri, Route and state, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “state highway in Holt County, Missouri, 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.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2485350. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Missouri Route 120” 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.