Carrol Junction (also known as Carroll) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Laclede County, in the

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of south central

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. The community is located along the railroad line just west of

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and 1.75 miles southwest of Sleeper. The community was named after W. C. Carroll, a local farmer.

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