BlockDalton, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44618. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle. 1,927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Population over time
2 figuresDalton grew from 1,830 to 1,927 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,830 | |
| 2020 | 1,927 | +97 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Massillon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Massillon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,417 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Sugar Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
John Kinney and John Goudy were the first settlers in Sugar Creek township, and John and James Goudy were the next, and after them came Peter Cox and Samuel Cook, William Homan, and Rev. James Adams, who was the first preacher in the locality. William Homan was the first justice of the peace, elected al:out 1826. At an early day an election was held where Sugarcreek, East Union, Baughman and Greene corner, and every man who attended it went home with two offices. The first school house in the township was built on the farm owned later by Jacob Cox, and Samuel Cook was the first to teach in the township. It was a subscription school and the rates were fifty cents a pupil for each month's schooling, and in the absence of money almost anything else was received for pav. The first school hou.se erected in Dalton was where later the cemeteiw was laid out; the first teacher was Peter Vorrhes. Tlie first church (Presliytcrian) was built near the southwest corner of the quarter later owned liy S.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
James Goudy came to what is now Sugarcreek township as early as 1809, settling near Dalton. His brother John had effected a settlement in the neighborhood even prior to his settlement. The father. John Goudy, was in St. Clair's defeat, November 4, 1791, where he was wounded in the right groin, which, but for the thickness of his clothing, would have caused death. After being shot he traveled eighteen miles, when he paused by the wayside and ate the flesh of a dead horse, which later he declared was the best meat he had ever eaten. He carried the bullet in his flesh many years and finally died from its effects.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
Of the town of Dalton it may be recorded that Rev. James Adams had the town of Dover surveyed October 16, 1817, by A. Porter, and it embraced forty-six lots. Sharon was surveyed March 29, 1828, by C. W. Christmas, and that consisted of thirty lots. The entirety of these towns, together with that of Middletown, laid out by Jacob Switzer, in 1828, ceasing to exist as plats, the village of Dalton sprung up on the same ground. In 1821 Dalton contained but one house, and a man named Freeman kept the first tavern, where afterwards the Eagle House stood. The first physician of the place was Doctor Watson, and the first store was kept by Mr. Johnson. The first church of the village was the Presbyterian.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Sugar Creek Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 120 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 120 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dalton between 1883 and 1974: 99 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bruce, J. A., Bruce, W. A., C. A. Triplehorn and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City |
 | Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City |
 | Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in) |
 | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Clinopodium vulgare L. | 1895 | Selby, A.D. | Apple Creek |
 | Panicum capillare L. | 1895 | Selby, A.D. | Apple Creek |
| Solidago bicolor L. | 1898 | Duvel, J.W.T | Sugar Creek | |
 | Aster simplex C.C.Chang | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | near Smithville |
| Aster undulatus L. | 1899 | Duvel, J.W.T | Sugar Creek |
All 120 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalton in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Dalton | 2 hurt, $300,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $50,000 | A large tree was blown down onto an exterior garage. The structure collapsed onto several cars. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $5,000 | Several trees were uprooted. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $3,000 | Trees were downed or uprooted. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs along U.S. Highway 30 near the Stark County line. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton | - | Several trees down and garage damaged in Dalton. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Dalton | - | This report was a picture on Facebook. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Dalton | - | Hail larger than golf balls was reported. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Dalton | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Dalton | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel sized hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McQuaid (historical) | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Burton City | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Snively | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Riceland | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Whispering Pines Estates | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Orrville | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Kidron | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| West Lebanon | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Dalton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666988 | The 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 1064503. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.