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Missouri Route 221

state highway in Iron and St. Francois counties in Missouri, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2485471 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 221 is a 16.317-mile-long (26.260 km) east–west highway in eastern Missouri. Its western terminus is at Route 21 near Pilot Knob. Its eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 67 (US 67) near Farmington.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Missouri Route 221” as state highway in Iron and St. Francois counties in Missouri, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Missouri, Route and state.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 34-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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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Missouri Route 221”, the useful work is to connect “state highway in Iron and St. Francois counties in Missouri, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2485471. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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.

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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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  2. Expand the search: follow Missouri Route 221 primary sources, Missouri Route 221 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Missouri Route 221” 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.