Heatonville, Missouri is a small, unincorporated community on former U.S. Highway 66, now Missouri State Highway 96 in Lawrence County. U.S. Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the U.S. Highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ... Missouri State Highway 96 is a state highway running between Interstate 44 at Halltown and Missouri State Highway 171 near Carl Junction. ... Lawrence County is a county located in the state of Missouri. ...
A new Missouri rose out of the war—the semi-Southern atmosphere, along with the river life and steamboating, began to decline, but the flavor of the period was preserved in the works of one of Missouri's most celebrated sons, Mark Twain.
Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee; on the south by Arkansas; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the latter two across the Missouri River.)
As of 2003, the population of Missouri was 5,704,484.