Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Avon, MN

Avon is a small city in Stearns County that was laid out in 1873 and named after the River Avon in England, with a post office operating there since that same year.

Avon was not incorporated until 1900, twenty-seven years after it was first laid out.

Avon had a population of 1,618 at the 2020 census, living in 630 households, and it is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Avon has grown steadily for decades, rising from just 386 residents in 1950 to 1,618 in 2020.

Avon's official motto is "Lakes, Loons, Living," and eight lakes lie within the city limits.

Three of Avon's lakes are named Upper Spunk, Middle Spunk, and Lower Spunk Lake, and the city celebrates them each year with a festival called Spunktacular Days, or "Spunk Days" for short.

The word "spunk" behind Avon's lake names refers to torchwood, the fire-starting material early settlers once gathered in the area.

Each May since 2008, the Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon has run through Avon, with local volunteers staffing the water stations and cheering areas along the course.

When Garrison Keillor performed the 35th anniversary broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion live in Avon on July 4, 2009, he called the town "about as close to Lake Wobegon as you can get."

Avon is home to the Avon Lakers, an amateur baseball team in the Victory League that was established in July 1979 by the Avon Lions Club.