This is the inset map for Carthage from the 1959 official state highway map. Numbered routes shown on this map were US 66, Alternate US 66, US 71 (all routes in red), and Missouri 96 (in blue).

The Carthage inset was new in 1959. In previous years, Carthage had been shown as part of the Joplin area map (as in 1958).