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Dayton, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sheffield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. The Survey maps it on the Stockwell quadrangle. 1,330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Dayton within Tippecanoe County

On record in Dayton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Dayton fell from 1,420 to 1,330 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,420
20201,330-90 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Dayton between 2002 and 2005, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2004Natural1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 April 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dayton in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Thunderstorm WindDayton1 hurt, $12,000A semi-trailer was blown off Interstate 65 by thunderstorm winds. The driver was traveling north on I-65 about 10 miles north of Frankfort when the wind forced his empty vehicle off the road, tearing the roof open. The driver sustained minor injuries.
May 2004Tornado (F2)Dayton$1,000,000A tornado touched down near Dayton. The tornado caused significant tree damage and blew parts of roofs off two buildings in Dayton. The tornado continued moving northeast with sporadic damage until reaching large homes approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Dayton. Two homes were nearly destroyed on Halifax Lane. Wind speeds were estimated around 150 mph.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindDayton$150,000no account filed
July 2005Tornado (F0)Dayton$10,000An F0 tornado touched down briefly just east of the intersection of Interstate 65 and State Road 38 in Dayton. Most of the damage was confined to trees, although a construction trailer was flipped and a shed on a trailer was pushed across the road. Other damage to homes was confined to occasional broken windows.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindDayton$9,000Trees and tree limbs were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One tree was on a garage.
November 2017Tornado (EF0)Dayton$8,000This EF0 tornado touched down briefly northeast of Dayton and damaged a house and several trees. A few strips of siding was removed from the house and a few trees were downed as well.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindDayton$5,000Numerous trees blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts across the town.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindDayton$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of County Roads 900 East and 200 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDayton$2,000Multiple trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts with power outages noted.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindDayton-A measured 82 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. No damage was reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDayton-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured on State Route 38 near the Clinton county border.
August 2011HailDayton-no account filed
April 2002HailDayton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wyandot2.2 miles10
Monitor3.2 miles13
North Crane3.3 miles9
Meadowbrook3.8 miles13
Pettit4.4 miles9
Tecumseh5.4 miles13
Altamont Switch5.6 miles13
Eastwitch5.6 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2547035The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433370. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.