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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: MarkDonna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
Dayton Masonic Center
Community center
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Dayton Masonic Center, 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.
Schuster Performing Arts Center
Arts center
Photo: Jsteeber, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center is located in Dayton, Ohio and was built in 2003 to serve as Dayton's principal venue for performing arts.
Miami Valley Hospital
Hospital
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Premier Health Miami Valley Hospital is a large urban hospital in Dayton, Ohio. It is part of the Premier Health Partners network. The hospital has two additional locations: Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville, Ohio, and Miami Valley Hospital North in Englewood, Ohio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakwood and Oregon District.
Oakwood
Village
Photo: Zeist85, Public domain.
Oakwood is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,572 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Dayton, Oakwood is part of the Dayton metropolitan area.
Oregon District
Neighborhood
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The Oregon Historic District is a neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio. The Oregon District includes one of the earliest surviving combinations of commercial and residential architecture in Dayton.
Steele’s Hill–Grafton Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
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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
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, county seat, city of Ohio, and locality
- Location: City of Dayton, Montgomery, Miami - Scioto basins, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.7589° or 39° 45′ 32″ northLongitude
-84.1916° or 84° 11′ 30″ westPopulation
157,000Elevation
738 feet (225 metres)IATA airport code
DAYUnited Nations Location Code
US DAYOpen location code
86FQQR55+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 154381880OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4509884Wikidata ID
Q34739
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Satellite Map
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dayton”. Photo: MarkDonna, CC BY-SA 3.0.