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Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)

mountain 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 revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ8001020 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wildcat Mountain is a summit in Iron County, Missouri, located 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west of Taum Sauk Mountain, Missouri's highest peak. Wildcat Mountain's summit elevation is only about two feet less than that of Taum Sauk Mountain.

Wildcat Mountain was named for the wildcats in the area.

Editorial summary

“Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)” enters the record as mountain in Missouri, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wildcat, Mountain and Missouri can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 48-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Wildcat, Mountain and Missouri.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wildcat, Mountain and Missouri provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8001020. Authority coordinates are 37.568, -90.755. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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
Verify next

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 “Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wildcat Mountain (Missouri) primary sources, Wildcat Mountain (Missouri) archive and Wildcat 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 “Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wildcat Mountain (Missouri)” 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.