Afton
Afton is a city in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. It lies nearly on the banks of the Saint Croix River, which forms the natural eastern border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Photo: Iulus Ascanius, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 2,850 residents
- Description: city in Washington County, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as: “Afton, Minnesota”, “Afton, MN”, and “City of Afton”
- Postal code: 55001
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Saint Croix Beach.
Afton
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Afton, Washington, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.9028° or 44° 54′ 10″ north
Longitude
-92.7832° or 92° 46′ 60″ west
Population
2,850
Elevation
712 feet (217 metres)
Named after
UN/LOCODE
US FJT
Open location code
86P9W638+4P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Afton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أفتون”
- Basque: “Afton”
- Catalan: “Afton”
- Cebuano: “Afton”
- Chechen: “Афтон”
- Chinese: “阿夫頓”
- Czech: “Afton”
- Danish: “Afton”
- Dutch: “Afton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افتون”
- Finnish: “Afton”
- French: “Afton”
- German: “Afton”
- Gilaki: “آفتم”
- Haitian: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “Afton”
- Ido: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Ido: “Afton”
- Irish: “Afton”
- Italian: “Afton”
- Kazakh: “Афтон”
- Kirghiz: “Афтон”
- Korean: “애프턴”
- Ladin: “Afton”
- Malagasy: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “Afton”
- Mazanderani: “افتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Afton”
- Mirandese: “Afton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Afton”
- Norwegian: “Afton”
- Persian: “افتون، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “افتون”
- Polish: “Afton”
- Portuguese: “Afton”
- Russian: “Афтон”
- Serbian: “Афтан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Afton”
- Slovak: “Afton”
- South Azerbaijani: “افتون، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Afton”
- Swedish: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Swedish: “Afton”
- Tatar: “Афтон (Миннесота)”
- Tatar: “Афтон”
- Turkish: “Afton”
- Ukrainian: “Афтон”
- Urdu: “افتون، مینیسوٹا”
- Urdu: “افتون”
- Vietnamese: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “Afton”
- Volapük: “Afton”
- Welsh: “Afton, Minnesota”
- Welsh: “Afton”
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