Dayton
Dayton is a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. The population is 1,688 as of the 2020 census. It is included in the Harrisonburg metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bill McChesney, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,350 residents
- Description: town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Dayton, VA”, “Dayton, Virginia”, “Deaton”, “Rifetown”, and “Rifeville”
- Postal code: 22821
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mole Hill.
Mole Hill
Volcano
Photo: Jstuby, Public domain.
Mole Hill is a rounded hill composed of basalt, a volcanic rock, formed during the Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period. It is the eroded remnant of what was an active volcano approximately 47 million years ago, making it one of the youngest volcanoes on the east coast of North America. Mole Hill is situated 2½ miles north of Dayton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stemphleytown and Belmont Estates.
Stemphleytown
Hamlet
Stemphleytown is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Belmont Estates
Village
Belmont Estates is a census-designated place in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,263. It is a suburban bedroom community just to the west of Harrisonburg. Belmont Estates is situated 2½ miles northeast of Dayton.
Montezuma
Hamlet
Montezuma is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Montezuma is situated 2½ miles west of Dayton.
Dayton
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Rockingham, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.41485° or 38° 24′ 54″ northLongitude
-78.93864° or 78° 56′ 19″ westPopulation
1,350Elevation
1,204 feet (367 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DYVOpen location code
87C3C376+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 158331477OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dayton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دايتون”
- Basque: “Dayton”
- Catalan: “Dayton”
- Cebuano: “Dayton”
- Chechen: “Дейтон”
- Chinese: “Dayton”
- Dutch: “Dayton”
- French: “Dayton”
- German: “Dayton”
- Gilaki: “دیتن (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “دیتن”
- Haitian: “Dayton, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Dayton”
- Hungarian: “Dayton”
- Italian: “Dayton”
- Ladin: “Dayton”
- Marathi: “डेटन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dayton”
- Mirandese: “Dayton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dayton”
- Norwegian: “Dayton”
- Polish: “Dayton”
- Portuguese: “Dayton”
- Russian: “Дейтон (Виргиния)”
- Russian: “Дейтон”
- Serbian: “Дејтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dayton, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dayton”
- Spanish: “Dayton”
- Tatar: “Дейтон”
- Ukrainian: “Дейтон”
- Urdu: “ڈیٹن، ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “ڈیٹن”
- Uzbek: “Dayton”
- Uzbek: “Дайтон”
- Volapük: “Dayton”
- Welsh: “Dayton, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Dayton”
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