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Scranton is a city in Greene County in west-central Iowa, set in the valley of the North Raccoon River along U.S. Highway 30, about nine miles west of the county seat, Jefferson.

The first train reached the Scranton townsite in January 1867 on the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad, and the Blair Town Lot Company platted the town in the summer of 1869.

Scranton was named for Joseph H. Scranton of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the ironworks proprietor whose mills furnished the iron rails for much of the railroad's construction.

Scranton was incorporated in 1880, with the incorporation recorded in July of that year.

Scranton's proudest landmark is its water tower, built in 1897 and billed as the oldest working water tower in Iowa and the ninth-oldest in the United States.

The 2020 census counted 511 people in Scranton, making it the third-largest community in Greene County, behind Jefferson and Grand Junction.

Scranton's population has eased down slowly for decades, from 604 residents in 2000 and 557 in 2010 to 511 in 2020; the 2010 census counted those 557 residents in 238 households.

Scranton students attend the Greene County Community School District in Jefferson, the successor to the old Jefferson–Scranton district.