{{Short description|State highway in Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=MO |type=Route |route = 224 | map={{maplink-road|from=Missouri Route 224.map}} |map_custom=yes |map_notes=MO 224 highlighted in red |established = 1969<ref name=MOHwy1969>{{cite map|title=1969 Missouri Highway Map |url=https://www.modot.org/media/13959 |accessdate=August 19, 2020}}</ref> |length_mi = 13 |length_ref = <ref name=MoDOT>{{MoDOT Flex|accessdate=February 2, 2014}}</ref> |direction_a = West |terminus_a = {{Jct|state=MO|US|24}} west of Napoleon |direction_b = East |terminus_b = {{Jct|state=MO|US|24}} near Lexington |counties = Lafayette |previous_type = MO |previous_route= 221 |next_type = I |next_route = 229 }}

'''Route 224''' is a highway in western Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 24 near Lexington; its western terminus is at US 24 west of Napoleon. It follows the Missouri River and is prone to flooding.

==History== Before 1959, U.S. Route 24 used to travel through Napoleon and Lexington.<ref>{{cite map|title=1958 Missouri Highway Map |url=https://www.modot.org/media/13925 |accessdate=August 19, 2020}}</ref> A bypass was finished in 1959 which caused US&nbsp;24 to reroute onto the bypass. This resulted in the creation of US&nbsp;24 Business.<ref>{{cite map|title=1959 Missouri Highway Map |url=https://www.modot.org/media/13927 |accessdate=August 19, 2020}}</ref> It remained like that until 1969 when the business route was removed. This led to the creation of Route 224 and still remains like this to this day.<ref name=MOHwy1969/>

==Major intersections== {{Jcttop|state=MO|county=Lafayette|length_ref=<ref name=MoDOT/>}} {{MOint |location=Clay Township |ctdab=Lafayette |mile=0.000 |road={{Jct|state=MO|US|24|city1=Independence}} }} {{MOint |location=Napoleon |mile=0.947 |road={{Jct|state=MO|Supp|D}} }} {{MOint |location=Wellington |mile=5.990 |road={{Jct|state=MO|MO|131|dir1=South|city1=Odessa}} }} {{MOint |location=Lexington |lspan=3 |type=concur |mile=13.193 |road={{Jct|state=MO|MO-Bus|13|dab1=Lexington|dir1=South|name1=13th Street}} |notes=West end of Route 13 Business overlap }} {{MOint |type=concur |mile=14.799 |mile2=14.982 |road={{Jct|state=MO|MO|13|MO-Bus|13|dab2=Lexington|dir2=ends|city1=Richmond|city2=Higginsville}} |notes=Interchange; east end of Route 13 Business overlap }} {{MOint |mile=15.217 |road={{Jct|state=MO|US|24|city1=Marshall}} }} {{Jctbtm|keys=concur}}

==References== {{Attached KML|display=inline,title}} {{Reflist}}

224 Category:Transportation in Lafayette County, Missouri

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