Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lawton, IA

Lawton is a fast-growing city in Woodbury County, just seven miles east of Sioux City on U.S. Route 20, and it is part of the Sioux City metropolitan area.

Lawton was platted in 1901 and named for J. C. Law, an early settler who was a native of Lawton, Michigan; its post office has been in operation since 1902.

Lawton functions largely as a bedroom community for Sioux City, with commuters drawn by its small-town feel at the metro's edge.

The 2020 census counted 943 people in Lawton living in 349 households - a remarkable rise for a town that had only 138 residents in 1910.

Lawton was the fastest-growing community in Woodbury County during the 2000s, jumping 30.3% from 697 people in 2000 to 908 in 2010, then growing again to 943 by 2020.

Lawton is a young town by Iowa standards - its median age was 38.9 years in 2020, and more than 40% of its households had children under 18 living at home.

Lawton's public schools are run by the Lawton-Bronson Community School District, created on July 1, 1966 by the merger of the Lawton and Bronson districts.

Lawton-Bronson Junior-Senior High School stands right in Lawton, while the district's elementary school is in neighboring Bronson.

Lawton packs its 943 residents into just 0.72 square miles of rolling, fertile farmland, a density of about 1,310 people per square mile.