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Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport

airport in Missouri, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7244926 ↗
Source-derived summary

Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport (FAA LID: 7MO) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Princeton, a city in Mercer County, Missouri, United States.

Facilities and aircraft

Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport covers an area of 20 acres (8 ha) at an elevation of 858 feet (262 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with a turf surface measuring 2,475 by 100 feet (754 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2011, the airport had 130 general aviation aircraft operations.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport” as airport in Missouri, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Princeton-Kauffman, Memorial and Airport.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Princeton-Kauffman, Memorial and Airport providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Missouri, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7244926. Authority coordinates are 40.421, -93.599. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport primary sources, Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport archive and Princeton-Kauffman 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 “Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport” 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.