| Welcome! Whether you are a current resident, or have friends and family in the Elgin area, this web site is the place to contact the community about events and services. Elgin is a picturesque community of approximately 700 residents in the northeastern part of Iowa. It is located between the Turkey River and Otter Creek in eastern Fayette County what is known as “Shinbone Valley.” Elgin’s 2000 population was 676 residents, but we are growing! New housing is being built in several parts of town and we are proud of the quality of life in our corner of Fayette County. Elgin is close to the communities of Clermont, West Union, Elkader, Wadena, Gunder and Postville. The Valley School district includes Wadena, Elgin and Clermont and is located about 2 miles from Elgin on Highway W51. Elgin lies in the rolling hill country and much of the surrounding area is heavily wooded. A number of residents of larger Iowa towns have weekend and vacation homes in the area. The charm of the community and the excellent business services available make it a great place to relax and enjoy the country. Elgin has an unusual number of businesses for a town of its size. Some of the businesses include, Alpine Telephone, The American Legion Hall, Ag Venture of Iowa, Baker Construction, Barker’s Jiffy Mart, Butikofer Insurance, Chapman Electric, Don’ s Phillips 66, Downtown Hair designs, Newspapers of Fayette County – The Elgin Echo, Elgin Fire Department, Elgin Motor Supply, Elgin Historical Society, Elgin State Bank, Elgin Laundromat, Extra Touch Salon, Hardware MD, Fauser Energy Resources, Frieden Welding, Hilgerson Trucking, Treasures Antiques and Fine Art, Tyson Hog Buying Station, Katsumes Law Firm, Leonard-Grau Funeral Home, Mary Kay Cosmetics – Terry Kruger, Moore’s IGA Grocery, Relay Iowa, Rod’s Plumbing and Heating, Seabrooke Accounting, The Sunrise Group, Torkelson Motors, Valley Veterinary Clinic, NE Iowa Coop, and Wenger Construction. Heart of the Valley Clinic, Krueger Construction, Federal Hybrids, Inc., Roger Falb Rentals, Central Tank Coating-- Water Tower Maintenance, Francis Butikofer, Real Estate, J & L Lawn Care, Kevin Lembke Trucking, Keith Johnson Grain Hauling, J & M Fund Raising, Inc. & Jimmy's Elgin Cafe Lutra, Iowa is now part of Elgin. It was the small town a mile from downtown Elgin and was incorporated into the town of Elgin in the early 1900’s. The railroad came through Lutra and served both communities until the late 1970’s. Both Elgin and Lutra had hotels and separate business districts well into the 20th Century. Samuel Connors laid out the city blocks in Lutra which originally consisted of 8 blocks. The Elgin Historical Society has numerous pictures and city records relating to Lutra. We welcome you to our community and hope that you’ll come to visit. Elgin is a serene community and the perfect place for a weekend getaway. We're just 75 miles from Cedar Rapids and Waterloo and an easy drive from Chicago, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Madison. Elgin residents enjoy an extremely low cost of living in a safe, scenic community with plenty of services and things to do. It's a great place to live and a fine place to retire. But best of all, our community is an exceptional place to raise a family in a top school district - The Valley Community Schools! Come for a visit - you may decide to stay! For more information about Elgin, see our City Of Elgin page and take a tour of our web site. |
| Would you like your Elgin area business to have a web page and links? The Elgin web site is offering custom web pages and links for Valley businesses for only $25.00 a year! It's the most inexpensive deal on the web! Take a look at a sample page featuring "TREASURES" Antiques: Click here to see an example - TREASURES Contact the site webmaster for details and an appointment. Click here to contact the web master. |
| Would you like to have your email address listed on the Elgin Web Site? Click here to add your name to our email listing. |
| Contact the Elgin Website Manager Click Here. This web site was created and is maintained as a volunteer project for the town of Elgin and is sponsored by the Elgin Community Betterment Club (ECBC) and is paid for by business web listings at no cost to the taxpayers. |
| Learn more about Race America! Click on this link to visit their site: www.raceamerica.org |
| Click here to see the latest information on Beulahland Christian Camp located east of Elgin off Hwy 56 |
Welcome to Elgin, Iowa!
The official web site for the town of Elgin, Iowa.
Sponsored by the Elgin, Iowa Community Betterment Club and the Elgin City Council
The official web site for the town of Elgin, Iowa.
Sponsored by the Elgin, Iowa Community Betterment Club and the Elgin City Council
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| Iowa SHARE program offers discounted healthy food for volunteer services. Click on this link for more details: www.shareiowa.com |
| Elgin Town & Country Market meets May through October. Thursdays 5:00 to 6:30 PM at the downtown Elgin City Park on Center Street next to the Elgin State Bank. Click here for schedule of musical entertainment. |
| The area Community Calendar is up and running! Click on the button at the top of this column to see the information. If you have a community event that you would like to have on this page, please email Al Seabrooke at: ajseabr@alpinecom.net |
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Our Elgin History in a great coffee table book - "Elgin - then and now" CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS |
| A Great Gift! |
| ELGIN COMMUNITY BETTERMENT CLUB 2010 Serving the community and building a better future! Dirk Torkelson, Donna Peterson -Co Chairpersons, Sara Strong - Secretary, Al Seabrooke - Treasurer Exciting changes are in the works for the future of Elgin! The Elgin Community Betterment Club called together approximately 60 residents of the community in November of 2007. From that gathering the Elgin 2023 initiative developed. Now the community is partnering with Trees Forever, Shive-Hatterly Architectural Design firm, the MSA group, and the Elgin City Council to create the design to change and improve our community. During this period Elgin became part of the Turkey River Corridor project, which is the plan of the communities of Clermont, Elgin, and Elkader to create a river trail and a recreational trail system that will connect the three communities. In the process the “Corridor”has been designated an Iowa Great Place, and with it the availability of grant funds for the projects involved. Already the first trail is funded and construction will begin from the Nims bridge north of Clermont to Elgin. That is expected to begin in 2010. The Corridor steering committee will be seeking other grants for the remainder of the recreational trail and the creation of the water trail. These are seen as positive economic developments for the area which will bring in tourist trade and create opportunities for jobs and small business start ups. Members of the ECBC are actively involved in these endeavors, and the ECBC has and will continue to give financial support where possible. The ECBC continues to sponsor local activities as it has in the past. We will support the Christmas season events, the children’s programs at Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, the Miss Elgin contest, the town wide cleanup day, the expanded northeast Fayette County garages sales, Sweet Corn Day, and the Town and Country Market, Plans are being developed to further expand the garage sales to include all of the communities within the River Bluffs Scenic Byway in northeast Iowa. In 2009 the ECBC membership reached 66, our biggest support group in the period since the ECBC became an active community advocate. Our revenue for 2009 was down slightly from 2008, and consequently we spent less on community projects. We discontinued the Thursday Music-in-the-park when we saw that attendance didn’t warrant the continuation of that activity. We decided to forego Sweet Corn Day in years of the Elgin Homecoming celebration. We plan to have the renewal of Sweet Corn Day in 2010, and the date is noted on the events calendar - CLICK HERE FOR THE VALLEY COMMUNITY CALENDAR We again invite you to join in our monthly lunch meeting at the library meeting room. The meeting convenes at 11:30 a.m. If you have a computer and an email address we will keep you abreast of the business conducted at the meeting by sending the monthly minutes via email. There is a place on the enrollment form which accompanies this letter to include the email address. Approximately 130 invitation letters will be mailed again this year. We hope to increase our numbers again and surpass the 66 of 2009. Please join us. Keep watching the Elgin website, www.elginiowa.org for information about your community, and use the website to advertise the events in which you are involved. It’s free. Contact Al Seabrooke at 426-5678 or ajseabr@alpinecom.net to place a calendar item on the website. |