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Missouri Route 145

highway in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2485398 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 145 is a short highway in Mercer County, Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route B; its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 136. There are no towns on the route.

Route description

Route 145 begins at an intersection with US 136 west of Princeton, heading north on a two-lane undivided road. The route passes through agricultural areas with some trees, curving northwest and running to the east of Lake Paho. The road heads west and crosses the lake, continuing through more rural areas. Route 145 comes to its northern terminus at an intersection with Route B.

History

This highway was designated as Route 136 by 1950, but was renumbered to Route 145 in 1951 when US 136 was created in Missouri.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Princeton, Mercer County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Missouri Route 145” as highway in Missouri. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Missouri, Route and highway can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as highway in Missouri. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Q2485398. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Missouri Route 145” 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.