Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Bourbon, MO

Bourbon is a city in northern Crawford County, Missouri, located on Interstate 44 between Sullivan to the northeast and Cuba to the southwest.

Bourbon is believed to be the only town in the United States named after bourbon whiskey.

A post office called Bourbon has been in operation since 1853, when the townsite was first planned as St. Cloud along the new railroad; the post office was originally styled 'Bourbon in the Village of St. Cloud' before the town took the shorter name.

Bourbon was incorporated in 1907, more than half a century after its post office opened.

Bourbon had a population of 1,567 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 1,632 in 2010, after counting only 31 residents in its first census appearance in 1880.

The 2010 census counted 718 housing units in Bourbon, within a compact city area of 1.34 square miles.

Historic Route 66 was aligned through Bourbon in 1926, bringing garages, service stations, and tourist cabins, until a new four-lane alignment of U.S. 66 bypassed the old business district in 1953.

The Circle Inn Malt Shop, at 171 South Old Highway 66, has been family-owned since 1955 and is a surviving Route 66-era stop.

Bourbon's old water tower, no longer in use, is a familiar landmark for travelers along Interstate 44.

West of Bourbon, the old Route 66 corridor passes through one of Missouri's finest grape and wine-producing regions, in a county organized in 1829 and named for U.S. Senator William H. Crawford of Georgia.