Biohazard Cleanup Near North Millerton Millerton, IA

Millerton is a tiny incorporated city in Wayne County in south-central Iowa, and with just 36 residents at the 2020 census it is the smallest incorporated town in the county.

Millerton owes its existence to the railroad: when the Rock Island line was built through from Chariton to Corydon in 1913, merchants and residents of the nearby town of New York moved to the new rail line, and a 1911 road map had shown only a small settlement called Ovid in the vicinity.

Millerton was incorporated on April 26, 1915, two years after the railroad arrived.

The 2020 census counted 36 people living in just 12 households in Millerton, down from 45 people in 2010.

Millerton peaked at 163 residents in the 1940 census and has shrunk in nearly every census since, falling below 50 people by 1990.

In the 1930s mail reached Millerton three times a day by train, but the town's bank failed during that decade and never reopened, and the town once supported its own Millerton High School.

Millerton is the birthplace of Lyle Tuttle, born there in 1931, who became known as the "granddaddy of tattoos" and one of the most famous tattoo artists in the world before his death in California in 2019.

The city covers only about 0.21 square miles of land in northern Wayne County, roughly seven miles north of the county seat, Corydon, on Highway 14.