Karlin 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 central Polk County, in the

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of southwest

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, United States. Karlin is located approximately 3.5 miles south of Bolivar and 1.5 miles west of

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. The village is located just north of

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and adjacent to the

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History

A variant name was "Tremont". A post office called Tremont was established in 1889, the name was changed to Karlin in 1903, and the post office closed in 1944. The present name is after

Karlín Karlín () is a cadastral area of Prague, part of Prague 8 municipal district, formerly an independent town (which became part of Prague in 1922). It is bordered by the river Vltava and Holešovice to the north, Vítkov hill and Žižkov to t ...

, in the Czech Republic. In 1991 the railroad tracks were abandoned. The section of railroad right of way that runs through Karlin is now used as part of the 37.6 mile Frisco Highline Trail that runs from Springfield to Bolivar, Missouri.

References

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