Afton, Oklahoma Afton, Oklahoma Location inside Ottawa County and the state of Oklahoma Location inside Ottawa County and the state of Oklahoma State Oklahoma Afton is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States.
The populace was 1,049 as of the 2010 census, with populace growth stemming from the near abandonment of close-by towns of Cardin and Picher because of ground contamination sites by small-town quarrying quarries.
Oklahoma historian George Shirk asserts that a Scottish barns surveyor, Anton Aires, titled the town Afton after his daughter.
Both Afton Aires' name and the Burns's poem honor the Afton River in Scotland. In 1901, the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad, which soon became part of the Frisco system, constructed another line through the town, creating a shorter route to Kansas City.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), all of it land.
Originally a farming and barns community, Afton is positioned on the historic U.S.
Businesses which formerly served US 66 travellers in the town's heyday encompassed the Palmer Hotel, Rogers' Motel, Rest Haven Motel, Green Acres Motel and Avon Motor Court, Baker's Cafe, Clint's Cafe, Smith Store and Barrett's Food Store, Mack's Place and Fred's 66 Bar. The Afton Station Packard Museum is homed in a former D-X filling station, assembled in 1937 and restored in 1999 to home Packard and U.S.
Afton is part of the Joplin-Miami, MO-OK urbane area.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 29.5% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $21,964, and the median income for a family was $28,036.
About 15.9% of families and 21.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 32.6% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those age 65 or over.
Afton is served by the Afton Independent School District.
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
Larry O'Dell, "Afton,".Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
"Afton recalls its Route 66 heyday" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
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