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Sinkin

Ghost town · Shannon County, Missouri

Round Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1945, 1:62,500)
Round Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1945, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sinkin is a ghost town in Shannon County, Missouri, recorded as human settlement in Missouri, United States of America. It is one of 11 former communities in Shannon County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 102 Missouri counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sinkin as a historical populated place on the Gladden topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.4095° N, 91.4062° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Missouri before 1931 that mention “Sinkin”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 236 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGladden
Elevation1,157 ft
Nearest living townBunker, MO
Distance to it11.2 miles
GNIS feature ID740428
Coordinates37.40949, -91.40625

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Sinkin today, aerial view
Round Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1945, 1:62,500)

Left: Round Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1945, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Sinkin is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bunker, MO (population 323), about 11.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,157 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Sinkin?

Sinkin is in Shannon County, Missouri, at 37.4095, -91.4062.

How many ghost towns are in Shannon County?

Shannon County, Missouri has 11 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.