Pekin is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Jefferson County, Iowa, United States.

The lack of development may be due to the fact that Pekin was not much more than a mile (2 km) northwest of Linby, a village founded in 1902 at the point where a new Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line crossed the Burlington and Western.

[5] Pekin is the location of a regional school system, Pekin Community School District,[6] which draws students from Hedrick, Martinsburg, Ollie, Packwood, Richland,[7] and Farson,[citation needed] as well as from the surrounding countryside.

[10] Sale of the airport to the regional school system was contingent on the runways being retained in case the government ever needed them again.

[10] Today, some of the runways are used for school parking and maintenance equipment, and is also used for training practice for surrounding police departments.