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Missouri Route 117

highway in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ2485343 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 117 is a short highway in Dent County. Its northern terminus is at Route 19 northeast of Salem; its southern terminus is in Indian Trail Conservation Area.

Route description

Route 117 begins in the Indian Trail Conservation Area at an intersection with two park roads. The route heads northwest through areas of dense forest on a two-lane undivided road. Route 117 comes to its northern terminus at an intersection with Route 19 northeast of Salem. It is one of the only 2 highways in Missouri to be less than 1 mile. the other being Missouri Route 799 at 0.50 miles.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Dent County.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Missouri Route 117” as highway in Missouri. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Missouri, Route and highway.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 110-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Missouri, Route and highway providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Missouri Route 117”, the useful work is to connect “highway in Missouri” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2485343.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Missouri Route 117”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Missouri Route 117 primary sources, Missouri Route 117 archive and Missouri research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Missouri Route 117”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Missouri Route 117” 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.