Laflin is an unincorporated community in the southeastern part of Lorance Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States. The community is on the Crooked Creek floodplain at the end of Missouri Route U. Marble Hill 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.State Historical Society of Missouri: Bollinger County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_bollinger.html The community was an important shipping-point for railroad timber.A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Bollinger County, Missouri A post office was in operation between 1871 and 1954.Post Offices in Bollinger County, MO
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