Dunnington, Indiana

Dunnington
—  Unincorporated town  —
Benton County's location in Indiana
Dunnington Dunnington's location in Benton County
Coordinates: 40°33′51″N 87°29′27″W / 40.56417°N 87.49083°W / 40.56417; -87.49083Coordinates: 40°33′51″N 87°29′27″W / 40.56417°N 87.49083°W / 40.56417; -87.49083
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Benton
Township	Parish Grove
Elevation	768 ft (234 m)
ZIP code	47944
FIPS code	18-19126[1]
GNIS feature ID	433799[2]

Dunnington is a small unincorporated town in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States, now virtually extinct. Named for John Dunn, it stands about one and a half miles west of its smaller sister town, Dunn. In the early 20th century it supported a Catholic church and school, a general store, a Forresters lodge and about half a dozen residences^[3] (an estimate similar to the town's current size). St. Mary's Catholic Church, establish in the late 19th century, was renovated in the early 1950s and was home to St. Mary's Catholic School which closed in the late 1960s.

Stained glass in St. Mary's Catholic Church

Geography

Dunnington is located at 40°33′51″N 87°29′27″W / 40.56417°N 87.49083°W / 40.56417; -87.49083, in fertile farm land on the border of Parish Grove Township and Hickory Grove Township, two miles east of the border with Illinois. Indiana State Road 71 passes north through the town, and a small creek named Kult Ditch flows northwest toward Mud Creek.

References

1. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
2. ^ "Dunnington, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:433799. Retrieved 2009-10-17. 
3. ^ Birch, Jesse Setlington (1942) [1928]. "Towns of the County". History of Benton County and Historic Oxford. Oxford, Indiana: Craw & Craw. p. 201.