Walton is a village in the town of Walton in Delaware County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 3,088.

Walton is the home of the annual Delaware County Fair, which is typically held in August.

There are three primary and secondary schools in Walton: Townsend Elementary School, Mack Middle School, and O'Neill High School.

History

The Christ Episcopal Church, First Congregational Church of Walton, Gardiner Place Historic District,

U.S. Post Office, and the Walton Grange 1454-Former Armory, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are located in the village.

Walton is the birthplace of William B. Ogden (born June 15, 1805), the first mayor of Chicago and a founder of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad line.

Walton has suffered from major flooding in 1996 and 2006.

Geography

The village is located at the center of the town of Walton, along the West Branch Delaware River. New York State Route 10 passes through the village, leading northeast to Delhi and southwest to Deposit. New York State Route 206 joins NY 10 in the village center and leads northwest to Bainbridge and southeast to Downsville. It is in close proximity to Agloe, the fictional town created to prevent copyright infringement of a mapping company.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village of Walton has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.73%, is water.

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Demographics

As of the census

  • William Walton, nephew of William Walton (merchant), was the owner of a 22,000 acre parcel of land which composes most of Walton. Parts of this parcel were sold off to his friends as the village was settled. The town and village are both named after him.

Media

  • Newspaper: The Walton Reporter, published since 1881
  • Radio: WDLA-AM 1270 & WDLA-FM 92.1
  • Cable: Charter Spectrum
  • The Boulder, Colorado jam band/ bluegrass/ grassroots genre band String Cheese Incident mentions Walton in the song "100 Year Flood". The entire song is written in reference to the devastation of the flood in 1996.
  • Debra Sundstrom was featured in an episode of Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall titled "Harvesting Murder" after a double murder-suicide that involved her husband sealed in a 55-gallon barrel.
  • Walton High School had a school shooting involving one victim in December 1992. The shooter, a 15-year-old boy who was raised in Walton, was the son of the now-closed Hodges Power Equipment owner. The victim, a high school English teacher, was shot in the face and survived.

References

  • Village of Walton official website
  • Town/Village of Walton