Official Name: | Dunnington, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Benton County |
Pushpin Label: | Dunnington |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Dunnington'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: | Parish Grove |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.5642°N -87.4908°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation Ft: | 768 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47944 |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-19126[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 433799 |
Dunnington is a small unincorporated community in Parish 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 west of its smaller sister town, Dunn. A post office was established at Dunnington in 1888, and was discontinued in 1903.[5] In the early 20th century it supported a Catholic church and school, a general store, a Forresters lodge and about half a dozen residences[6] (an estimate similar to the town's current size). St. Mary's Catholic Church, established 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.
Dunnington is located at 40.5642°N -87.4908°W, 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.