Appleton is a city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States.

Appleton also includes a plant-protein factory operated by Eat Just, Inc. Elmer A. Benson, who served as a United States Senator and as governor of Minnesota, was born in Appleton on September 22, 1895.

[5] Gethsemane Episcopal Church, on North Hering Street at Snelling Avenue, was built in 1879 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.04 sq mi (5.28 km2); 1.97 square miles (5.10 km2) are land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km2) is covered by water.

As of the census[9] of 2010, 1,412 people, 677 households, and 342 families were living in the city.

About 45.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 27.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Pioneer Public TV moved from Appleton to Granite Falls in 2016.

Appleton is also home to several low-power free-to-air and pay TV stations that show programming normally seen on cable television.

While this phenomenon is fairly common in Canada, it is unusual in the United States.