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Dayton, Ohio
City
City of Dayton

Nickname(s): The Gem City
Motto(s): Birthplace of Aviation
Location in Montgomery County and the state of Ohio.
Coordinates: 39°45′34″N 84°11′30″W / 39.75944°N 84.19167°W / 39.75944; -84.19167Coordinates: 39°45′34″N 84°11′30″W / 39.75944°N 84.19167°W / 39.75944; -84.19167
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Montgomery
Founded	1796
	1805 (city)
Government
• Mayor	Nan Whaley (D)
Area
• City	56.50 sq mi (146.33 km²)
• Land	55.65 sq mi (144.13 km²)
• Water	0.85 sq mi (2.20 km²)
Elevation	738 ft (225 m)
Population (2010)
• City	141,759
• Estimate (2015)^[1]	140,599
• Rank	US: 189th
• Density	2,543.2/sq mi (981.9/km²)
• Urban	724,091 (US: 59th)
• Metro	799,232 (US: 71st)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	ZIP codes^[2] 45400-45406, 45408-45410, 45412-45420, 45422-45424, 45426-45435, 45437, 45439-45441, 45448-45449, 45454, 45458-45459, 45469-45470, 45475, 45479, 45481-45482, 45490
Area code	937
FIPS code	39113
GNIS feature ID	1064514
Website	daytonohio.gov

Dayton is a large city in the American state of Ohio. It is where Orville and Wilbur Wright grew up. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, also near Dayton, gets part of its name from the Wright brothers. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is inside the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Dayton has a humid continental climate (Dfa in the Koeppen climate classification).

Ten people were killed in a mass shooting in Dayton on 4 August 2019.

References[change | change source]

↑ "Population Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
↑ "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on November 23, 2010. Retrieved December 2, 2014.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Dayton
Cities	Brookville Carlisle‡ Centerville‡ Clayton Dayton‡ Englewood Germantown Huber Heights‡ Kettering‡ Miamisburg Moraine Oakwood Riverside Springboro‡ Trotwood Union‡ Vandalia West Carrollton
Villages	Farmersville New Lebanon Phillipsburg Verona‡
Townships	Butler Clay German Harrison Jackson Jefferson Miami Perry Washington
CDPs	Drexel Fort McKinley Shiloh
Other communities	Airhill Amity Arlington Bachman Chautauqua‡ Dodson Liberty Little York Miami Villa Morgan Place New Chicago Northridge Pyrmont Spanker Woodbourne-Hyde Park
Ghost towns	Fishburg Manor Tadmor
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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v t e All-America City Award Hall of Fame (1949–2021)
Three-time winners	Alexandria, Virginia (1963, 1984, 1985) Allentown, Pennsylvania (1962, 1974, 1975) Asheville, North Carolina (1951, 1969, 1997) Bloomington, Indiana (1958, 1981, 1982) Boston, Massachusetts (1949, 1951, 1962) Cincinnati, Ohio (1949, 1950, 1981) Dayton, Ohio (1951, 1978, 1991) Delray Beach, Florida (1993, 2001, 2017) Edinburg, Texas (1968, 1995, 2000) Fayetteville, North Carolina (1985, 2001, 2011) Fort Worth, Texas (1964, 1993, 2011) Gastonia, North Carolina (1963, 2000, 2010) Grand Rapids, Michigan (1949, 1960, 1981) Hampton, Virginia (1972, 2002, 2014) Hickory, North Carolina (1967, 1987, 2007) Independence, Missouri (1961, 1982, 2001) Laurinburg, North Carolina (1956, 1967, 2003) Louisville, Kentucky (1963, 1995, 2012) Norfolk, Virginia (1959, 2013, 2016) Rochester, New York (1981, 1998, 2020) Seward, Alaska (1963, 1965, 2005) Shreveport, Louisiana (1953, 1980, 1999) Somerville, Massachusetts (1972, 2009, 2015) Spokane, Washington (1975, 2004, 2015) Tacoma, Washington (1956, 1984, 1998)
Four-time winners	Akron, Ohio (1980, 1981, 1995, 2008) Anchorage, Alaska (1956, 1965, 1985, 2002) Baltimore, Maryland (1952, 1977, 1991, 2012) Columbus, Ohio (1958, 1987, 1992, 2006) Fort Wayne, Indiana (1983, 1998, 2009, 2021) Grand Island, Nebraska (1955, 1967, 1981, 1982) New Haven, Connecticut (1958, 1998, 2003, 2008) Peoria, Illinois (1953, 1966, 1989, 2013) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1949, 1951, 1957, 1994) Rockville, Maryland (1954, 1961, 1977, 1979) Toledo, Ohio (1950, 1983, 1984, 1998)
Five-time winners	Cleveland, Ohio (1949, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1993) Dubuque, Iowa (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) El Paso, Texas (1969, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2021) Phoenix, Arizona (1950, 1958, 1980, 1989, 2009) Stockton, California (1999, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018) Tupelo, Mississippi (1967, 1989, 1999, 2011, 2015) Wichita, Kansas (1961, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2019) Worcester, Massachusetts (1949, 1960, 1965, 1981, 2000)
Six-time winners	Des Moines, Iowa (1949, 1977, 1982, 2003, 2010, 2017)
Seven-time winners	Kansas City, Missouri (1950, 1951, 1986, 1994, 2006, 2017, 2021) Roanoke, Virginia (1952, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1996, 2012, 2017) San Antonio, Texas (1949, 1951, 1983, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)

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