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Brayton, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 145
Housing Units (2000): 73
Land area (2000): 0.615905 sq. miles (1.595186 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.615905 sq. miles (1.595186 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08200
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.545283 N, 94.925865 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50042
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Brayton (name)

Brayton is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Charles R. Brayton, American Republican politician
  • Chuck Brayton, American baseball head coach for the Washington State Cougars
  • George Brayton, American mechanical engineer
  • George Brayton (New York) (1772–1837), New York politician
  • Lee Brayton, former American racing driver
  • Lily Brayton, English actress
  • Scott Brayton, American race car driver
  • Tyler Brayton, American football for the Carolina Panthers
  • William Daniel Brayton, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island

Given name:

  • Brayton Biekman, Dutch footballer
  • Brayton Ives, president of Northern Pacific Railway, of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Western National Bank of New York

Usage examples of "brayton".

Lieutenant Scon Brayton had fallen between the bench and the lower portion of the Pos Three console.

He relinquished the periscope to Officer of the Deck Lieutenant Brayton and spoke to the crew.

He turned the periscope back over to Brayton and picked up the microphone, hit a toggle switch and spoke, his voice that echoed back at him sounding like the voice of a giant bouncing off the ocean floor.

Stokes called to Brayton, who turned on the plot table in the forward starboard corner of the control room.

As the ship continued east, the ice remained thin, and Brayton continued with blue dots, connecting them with blue line segments.

As the boat moved from thin ice to thick, Brayton marked the crosshair and began to plot the dots in orange with orange dashes connecting them and indicating thick ice.

In time they took up the old quarrel, and with Steve Marcum and Steve Brayton as leaders, the old Stetson-Lewallen feud went on, though but one soul was left in the mountains of either name.

In time Steve Marcum had come face to face with old Steve Brayton in Hazlan, and the two Steves, as they were known, drew promptly.

Well, he kin git the chance ef I gits my leetle account settled with ole Steve Brayton fust.

Farther down, under the crest, was old Steve Brayton, alive, and at that moment perhaps asleep.

They would creep close, and when the moon was hid they would run in and get old Brayton alive, if possible.

The boy had promised to join him against old Brayton, and here was the Winchester, brand-new, to bind his word.

Several men in the Brayton cabin had recognized the boy in the moonlight.

It was old Steve Brayton, who had fired from the cabin at Isom, and dropping his Winchester, he stumbled forward with the butt of his pistol held out to Raines.

Marcum and a Brayton worked side by side at the mill hollowing out another.