Afton Township is one of the sixteen townships located in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States.

Afton Township covers an area of 36.08 square miles (93.4 km2) and contains no incorporated settlements.

According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Afton and Immanuel Lutheran.

Pierre Watkin, later a veteran character actor in Hollywood, was born here in 1887.

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