Dayton

Dayton is the birthplace of aviation: the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, lived here and perfected their design for the first practical aircraft. It is also home to one of the few multi-site National Parks in the U.S, the Dayton Aviation Heritage Park.
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  • Type: City with 157,000 residents
  • Description: city ​​and county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: Cabintown”, “Dayton, OH”, “Dayton, Ohio”, “Gem City”, and “Venice
  • Postal codes: 45401-45406, 45409, 45410, 45412-45417, 45419, 45420, 45422-45424, 45426, 45428-45430, 45432, 45434, 45435, 45437, 45439-45441, 45448, 45449, 45458, 45459, 45469, 45470, 45475, 45479, 45481, 45482, and 45490

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dayton Masonic Center and Schuster Performing Arts Center.

Community center
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The , formerly the Dayton Masonic Temple, is a significant building in Dayton, Ohio. It was built by a Masonic Temple Association formed from 14 Masonic groups.

Arts center
The Benjamin & Marian is located in Dayton, Ohio and was built in 2003 to serve as Dayton's principal venue for performing arts.

Hospital
Premier Health is a large urban in Dayton, Ohio. It is part of the Premier Health Partners network. The hospital has two additional locations: South in , and North in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oakwood and Oregon District.

Village
Photo: Zeist85, Public domain.
is a city in , United States. The population was 9,572 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Dayton, is part of the .

Neighborhood
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Oregon Historic District is a neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio. The includes one of the earliest surviving combinations of commercial and residential architecture in Dayton.

Neighborhood
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Steele's Hill–Grafton Hill Historic District, or simply known locally as Grafton Hill, is a small 18-block sector of Dayton, Ohio, United States that was developed in the late 19th century.

Dayton

Latitude
39.7589° or 39° 45′ 32″ north
Longitude
-84.1916° or 84° 11′ 30″ west
Population
157,000
Elevation
738 feet (225 metres)
IATA airport code
DAY
United Nations Location Code
US DAY
Open location code
86FQQR55+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154381880
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4509884
Wiki­data ID
Q34739
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Dayton” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Dayton
  • Albanian: Dejtoni
  • Arabic: دايتون، أوهايو
  • Arabic: دايتون
  • Armenian: Դեյթոն
  • Asturian: Dayton
  • Basque: Dayton
  • Belarusian: Дэйтан
  • Bengali: ডেটন, ওহাইও
  • Bengali: ডেটন
  • Bosnian: Dayton
  • Breton: Dayton
  • Bulgarian: Дейтън
  • Catalan: Dayton
  • Cebuano: Dayton
  • Central Kurdish: دایتن، ئۆھایۆ
  • Chechen: Дейтон
  • Chinese: 代頓
  • Chinese: 代顿
  • Chinese: 德頓
  • Chinese: 美國俄亥俄州代頓市
  • Cornish: Dayton, Ohio
  • Cornish: Dayton
  • Croatian: Dayton, Ohio
  • Croatian: Dayton
  • Czech: Dayton
  • Dagbani: Dayton
  • Danish: Dayton
  • Dutch: Dayton
  • Egyptian Arabic: دايتون
  • Esperanto: Dajtono
  • Esperanto: Dayton
  • Estonian: Dayton
  • Finnish: Dayton
  • French: Dayton
  • Galician: Dayton
  • Georgian: დეიტონი
  • German: Dayton
  • Gilaki: دیتن (اؤهایؤ)
  • Gilaki: دیتن
  • Greek: Ντέιτον
  • Gujarati: ડેટોન
  • Haitian: Dayton, Ohio
  • Haitian: Dayton
  • Hebrew: דייטון
  • Hindi: डेटन, ओहायो
  • Hindi: डेटन
  • Hungarian: Dayton
  • Ido: Dayton, Ohio
  • Ido: Dayton
  • Indonesian: Dayton, Ohio
  • Indonesian: Dayton
  • Irish: Dayton, Ohio
  • Irish: Dayton
  • Italian: Dayton
  • Japanese: デイトン
  • Kannada: ಡೇಯ್ಟನ್
  • Kazakh: Дэйтон
  • Kölsch: Dayton
  • Korean: 데이턴
  • Ladin: Dayton
  • Latvian: Deitona
  • Lithuanian: Deitonas
  • Luxembourgish: Dayton
  • Malagasy: Dayton, Ohio
  • Malagasy: Dayton
  • Malay: Dayton
  • Marathi: डेटन
  • Moksha: Дэйтон
  • Mongolian: Дэйтон
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Dayton
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Dayton
  • Norwegian: Dayton
  • Occitan (post 1500): Dayton
  • Ossetian: Дейтон
  • Persian: دیتون
  • Piemontese: Dayton
  • Polish: Dayton
  • Portuguese: Dayton, Ohio
  • Portuguese: Dayton
  • Romanian: Dayton, Ohio
  • Romanian: Dayton
  • Russian: Дейтон
  • Russian: Дэйтон
  • Scots: Dayton
  • Scottish Gaelic: Dayton, Ohio
  • Scottish Gaelic: Dayton
  • Serbian: Dayton
  • Serbian: Дејтон
  • Serbo-Croatian: Dayton, Ohio
  • Serbo-Croatian: Dayton
  • Silesian: Dayton
  • Sinhala: ඩේටන්
  • Slovak: Dayton
  • Slovenian: Dayton
  • South Azerbaijani: دیتون، اوهایو
  • Spanish: Dayton (Ohio)
  • Spanish: Dayton
  • Swahili: Dayton, Ohio
  • Swahili: Dayton
  • Swedish: Dayton
  • Tagalog: Dayton, Ohio
  • Tagalog: Dayton
  • Tamil: டயட்டன்
  • Tatar: Дейтон
  • Telugu: డేటన్
  • Thai: เดย์ตัน
  • Turkish: Dayton, Ohio
  • Turkish: Dayton
  • Ukrainian: Дейтон
  • Urdu: ڈیٹن، اوہائیو
  • Urdu: ڈیٹن
  • Uzbek: Dayton
  • Venetian: Dayton
  • Vietnamese: Dayton, Ohio
  • Vietnamese: Dayton
  • Volapük: Dayton
  • Waray (Philippines): Dayton, Ohio
  • Waray (Philippines): Dayton
  • Welsh: Dayton, Ohio
  • Welsh: Dayton
  • Wu Chinese: 代顿(俄亥俄州)
  • Wu Chinese: 代顿
  • Yakut: Дэйтон
  • Yue Chinese: 代頓

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