Route 1 is a

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in the

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that travels from Route 210 in North Kansas City to Route 152 in

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more t ...

. Because of annexation, Route 1 travels to the north out of North Kansas City and enters Kansas City proper before passing through

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and re-entering Kansas City.

Route description

Route 1 begins at an

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with Route 210 (Armour Road) in North Kansas City as Vernon Street. It travels to the north-northeast along Prather Road into

proper. Before crossing Parvin Road, the route curves northeast, then before passing under Interstate 35 it curves back to due north, at which point it becomes Antioch Road. Route 1 then has an interchange with

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(I-35) and an intersection with U.S. Route 69 (US 69; Vivion Road). The route crosses Englewood Road into the city limits of

, continuing on from N.E. 64th Street as N. Prospect Avenue. It then continues due north to N.E. 72nd Street, and curves to the northeast, where it re-enters the

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of Kansas City. Then Route 1 curves back to the north, becoming N. Indiana Avenue. The route ends at an interchange with Route 152.

History

The highway was one of the original 1922 highways in Missouri and it originally ran from the

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state line south of Noel to the

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state line north of Rock Port. In 1926, with the creation of the

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, Route 1 became part of U.S. Route 71 and U.S. Route 59. The original Route 1 is now: * U.S. Route 275 from Iowa to Rock Port * U.S. Route 136 from Rock Port to south of Tarkio * U.S. Route 59 from Tarkio to

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* U.S. Route 71 from Savannah to

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(also

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from

to Carthage) * Interstate 49 Business from Carthage to Joplin *

/U.S. Route 71 from Joplin to Anderson * Route 59 (formerly US 71) from Anderson to Arkansas.

Branches

Route 1 originally had several branches (all decommissioned): *Route 1A to Phelps City (now U.S. Route 136) *Route 1B to Craig *Route 1C to Bigelow (now Route 118) *Route 1D to north of Maitland (now Route 113) *Route 1E to eastern Holt County (now Route 120) *Route 1F to Forest City (now Route 111) *Route 1F to the

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state line (now

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)

Major intersections

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