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Eaton is a statutory town in Weld County, Colorado.

The Town of Eaton was incorporated on December 5, 1892, after a petition signed by 36 residents, including Benjamin Eaton himself, and an election in which all 50 votes cast favored incorporation.

Eaton is named for Benjamin H. Eaton and Aaron J. Eaton of the Eaton Milling and Elevator Company, irrigation pioneers who helped transform the arid plains east of Colorado's Front Range into productive farmland; Benjamin Eaton later served as governor of Colorado from 1885 to 1887.

The community was first called Eatonton when its post office opened on September 25, 1882, to avoid confusion with the Easton post office in El Paso County; the name was shortened to Eaton on September 28, 1883.

Eaton's population was 5,802 at the 2020 census, a 32.9 percent increase over the 4,365 residents counted in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 2,096 households and 2,146 housing units in Eaton.

Eaton covers about 3.2 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 4,839 feet.

The town lies along U.S. Route 85 and the Denver-to-Cheyenne mainline of the Union Pacific Railroad, approximately 7 miles north of Greeley.

Eaton, whose ZIP Code is 80615, is part of the Greeley, Colorado Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The farming country around Eaton continues to depend on the irrigation systems engineered by the Eatons and others in the late 19th century.