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Laflin 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 the southeastern part of Lorance Township in
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, United States. The community is on the Crooked Creek floodplain at the end of
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is approximately 4.5 miles to the northwest.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 58,


History

The community was named after Sylvester M. Laflin, who was then a director of the Belmont Branch of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. The community was an important shipping-point for railroad timber. A post office was in operation between 1871–1954.Post Offices in Bollinger County, MO


References

Unincorporated communities in Bollinger County, Missouri Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{BollingerCountyMO-geo-stub