Official Name: | Dunn, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | extinct town |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Benton County |
Pushpin Label: | Dunn |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Dunn's location in Benton County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Benton |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Hickory Grove |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.5639°N -87.4639°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation Ft: | 797 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47944 |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-19108[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 433791 |
Dunn is an extinct town in Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[3]
Named for Capt. James Dunn,[4] it stands about one and a half miles east of Dunnington. In the 1920s it had two general stores, a grain elevator and about half a dozen residences.[5] The post office at Dunn was established in 1907 and discontinued in 1913.[6] [7]
Dunn is located at 40.5639°N -87.4639°W along Benton County Road 300 South, on the border of Parish Grove Township and Hickory Grove Township. A defunct and overgrown rail line runs north and south through the settlement.