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Missouri Route 371

state highway in Buchanan and Platte counties in Missouri, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2485521 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 371 is a highway in western Missouri. Its southern terminus is at Route 273 north of Tracy. Its northern terminus is at Route 752 in St. Joseph. It is a former alignment of U.S. Route 71 (US 71).

Route description

Route 371 is a highway that begins in St. Joseph, Missouri and ends in Tracy, north of Platte City. It begins at an intersection with Route 752. After this point, the highway stays mostly parallel and relatively close to I-29/US 71 It then intersects with Route H and shortly after Route A. Continuing south, it passes through Faucett on the west side. Afterward, it intersects with Route 116.

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The public source identifies “Missouri Route 371” as state highway in Buchanan and Platte counties in Missouri, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Missouri, Route and state.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 109-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 state providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Missouri Route 371” 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.