Eldon
Eldon is a city in Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 783 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the home of the small Carpenter Gothic style house that served as the backdrop for Grant Wood's 1930 painting, American Gothic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 783 residents
- Description: city in Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Eldon, IA” and “Eldon, Iowa”
- Postal code: 52554
Places of Interest
Highlights include American Gothic House.
American Gothic House
Photo: Jehjoyce, Public domain.
The American Gothic House, also known as the Dibble House, is a house in Eldon, Iowa, designed in the Carpenter Gothic style with a distinctive upper window.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batavia.
Batavia
Village
Batavia is a city in Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 430 at the 2020 census. It was established in 1846. Batavia is situated 6 miles northeast of Eldon.
Eldon
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Washington Township, Wapello, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.91805° or 40° 55′ 5″ northLongitude
-92.22195° or 92° 13′ 19″ westPopulation
783Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)United Nations Location Code
US 7ELOpen location code
86G9WQ9H+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 151503299OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Eldon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلدون”
- Basque: “Eldon”
- Catalan: “Eldon”
- Cebuano: “Eldon”
- Chechen: “Элдон”
- Chinese: “Eldon”
- Chinese: “埃爾登”
- Danish: “Eldon”
- Dutch: “Eldon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدون”
- French: “Eldon”
- German: “Eldon”
- Gilaki: “الدون (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “الدون”
- Haitian: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Eldon”
- Ido: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Ido: “Eldon”
- Irish: “Eldon”
- Italian: “Eldon”
- Kazakh: “Éldon”
- Kazakh: “Элдон”
- Kazakh: “ەلدون”
- Kirghiz: “Элдон”
- Ladin: “Eldon”
- Malagasy: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Eldon”
- Mazanderani: “الدون (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “الدون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eldon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldon”
- Persian: “الدون، آیووا”
- Persian: “الدون”
- Polish: “Eldon”
- Portuguese: “Eldon”
- Serbian: “Eldon”
- Serbian: “Елдон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eldon”
- South Azerbaijani: “الدون، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Eldon”
- Tatar: “Элдон”
- Turkish: “Eldon”
- Ukrainian: “Елдон”
- Uzbek: “Eldon”
- Uzbek: “Елдон”
- Vietnamese: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Eldon”
- Volapük: “Eldon”
- Welsh: “Eldon, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Eldon”
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Highlights include Christian Church and Eldon First Baptist Church.
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