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Key facts
- Country
- USA
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Union
- Total
- 1.00 sq mi (2.60 km )
- Land
- 1.00 sq mi (2.60 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,230 ft (370 m)
- Density
- 869.1/sq mi (335.56/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-00595
- Website
- aftoniowa .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Afton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Union County
- Population
- 874
- Area
- 2.555198
- Elevation
- 378
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Households
- 358
- Dialing code
- 641
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- water as percent of area
- 0
- postal code
- 50830
- per capita income
- 25442
- Commons category
- Afton, Iowa
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Encyclopedic overview
Afton is a city in Union County, Iowa. The population was 874 at the time of the 2020 census. Its peak of population was in 1880, at 1,231 residents, when numerous European immigrants and migrants from the eastern United States settled here for the farmland. Mechanization of farming and consolidation of farms has reduced the population.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.