Clayton
Clayton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,043, and was estimated to be 16,845 in 2025. The county seat is Elkader and the largest city is Guttenberg.
- Type: County with 17,000 residents
- Description: county in Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Clayton County”, “Clayton County i Iowa”, “Clayton County, IA”, “Clayton County, Iowa”, “Clayton ilçesi, IA”, “Clayton ilçesi, Iowa”, and “مقاطعه كلايتون، آيوا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elkader.
Clayton
- Categories: county of Iowa and locality
- Location: Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.8548° or 42° 51′ 17″ north
Longitude
-91.3667° or 91° 22′ 0″ west
Population
17,000
Elevation
965 feet (294 metres)
Open location code
86JCVJ3M+W8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Clayton” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Clayton County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كلايتون”
- Armenian: “Քլեյտոն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Clayton”
- Basque: “Clayton konderria”
- Bavarian: “Clayton County, Iowa”
- Bavarian: “Clayton County”
- Bishnupriya: “ক্লেটন কাউন্টি, আইৱা”
- Bishnupriya: “ক্লেটন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Клейтън”
- Catalan: “comtat de Clayton”
- Cebuano: “Clayton County”
- Chechen: “Клейтон (гуо, Айова)”
- Chechen: “Клейтон”
- Chinese: “克莱顿县”
- Chinese: “克萊頓縣”
- Dutch: “Clayton County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Clayton”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Clayton”
- Estonian: “Claytoni maakond”
- Finnish: “Claytonin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Clayton”
- French: “Comté de Clayton”
- Georgian: “კლეიტონის ოლქი”
- German: “Clayton County”
- Gilaki: “کلیتون ٚ شأرستان (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “کلیتون ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Κλέιτον”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Κλέιτον”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קלייטון”
- Hungarian: “Clayton megye”
- Irish: “Contae Clayton”
- Italian: “contea di Clayton”
- Italian: “Contea di Clayton”
- Japanese: “クレイトン郡”
- Korean: “클레이턴군”
- Low German: “Clayton County”
- Mazanderani: “کلیتون شهرستان (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “کلیتون شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Clayton Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Clayton Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Clayton County”
- Norwegian: “Clayton County”
- Persian: “شهرستان کلیتون، آیووا”
- Persian: “شهرستان کلیتون”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Clayton”
- Portuguese: “condado de Clayton”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Clayton”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Clayton, Iowa”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Clayton”
- Russian: “Клейтон”
- Sardinian: “contea de Clayton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Clayton County”
- Serbian: “Округ Клејтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clayton County, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Clayton County”
- Spanish: “condado de Clayton”
- Spanish: “Condado de Clayton”
- Swedish: “Clayton County, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Clayton County”
- Tatar: “Клейтон (округ, Айова)”
- Tatar: “Клейтон”
- Turkish: “Clayton County, Iowa”
- Turkish: “Clayton ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Клейтон”
- Urdu: “کلیٹن کاؤنٹی، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “کلیٹن کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Clayton”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Clayton, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Clayton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Clayton, Iowa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Clayton”
- Welsh: “Clayton County, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Clayton County”
- Western Panjabi: “کلیٹن کاؤنٹی”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Clayton Center and Motor.
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