Yorktown, Iowa

About Yorktown

Yorktown, IA is a tiny community located in southwestern Iowa with an estimated population of 60.

Yorktown holds the status of an incorporated city with its own municipal government. The community covers 0.27 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 222 residents per square mile.

📰 Yorktown News Today

• Viewers share photos and videos of Thursday's Severe Storm KETV · Jun 11
• Yorktown Weather Today & Hourly Forecast SpaceRef · Aug 29
• Notes: Throwdown on the Yorktown, Blue Hose Challenge Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics · Nov 14
• Wrestling on the USS Yorktown, Iowa women's wrestling downs No. 6 Presbyterian in dual Hawk Central · Nov 15
• Blue Hose Split Saturday Duals on Yorktown - Presbyterian College Presbyterian College - Official Athletics Website · Nov 15

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What Makes Yorktown Unique

• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.27 sq mi.
• With 60 residents, it's one of America's smallest incorporated communities — everybody really does know everybody.
• Positioned in southwestern Iowa, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 9 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Yorktown

• Pioneer County Park reviews ★

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