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Fairbank Township covers an area of 36.39 square miles (94.2 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Fairbank. According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Amish, North Amish and Union.
The Buchanan Amish affiliation is a subgroup of Amish that was formed in 1914 in Buchanan County, Iowa.It is among the most conservative in the entire Amish world. [1] It is the fourth largest of all Amish affiliations, having almost as many church districts as the Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation.
Kier, between Fairbank and Littleton, appeared on many maps in the 19th century and early 20th century. The area is now settled by Amish. Several towns named Middlefield existed southeast of Winthrop, but none are populated today. Newtonville was located a few miles south of Monti. The houses at Castleville were later moved to Aurora.
The Wapsie Valley School District, or Wapsie Valley Schools, is a public school district serving the towns of Fairbank and Readlyn and surrounding rural areas in eastern Buchanan County and western Black Hawk County. [2] The school's mascot is the Warriors, and their colors are black and gold.
As of the census of 2020, [6] there were 1,111 people, 451 households, and 315 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,511.0 inhabitants per square mile (583.4/km 2).
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Amish settlements in Pennsylvania, the state with the largest Amish population, 2022. The largest concentration of Amish west of the Mississippi River is in Missouri, with other settlements in eastern Iowa and southeast Minnesota. [100] The largest Amish settlements in Iowa are located near Kalona and Bloomfield. [101]
Over the years, as Amish churches have divided many times over doctrinal disputes, subgroups have developed. The "Old Order Amish", a conservative faction that withdrew in the 1860s from fellowship with the wider body of Amish, are those that have most emphasized traditional practices and beliefs.