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  2. Dayton, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Dayton ( / ˈdeɪtən / ⓘ) is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [5] [6] As of the 2020 census, the city proper had a population of 137,644, making it the sixth-most populous city in Ohio. It anchors the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area, the Dayton metropolitan area ...

  3. Dayton metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Dayton metropolitan area. /  39.8294°N 84.1419°W  / 39.8294; -84.1419. Metro Dayton or the Miami Valley, or more formally the Dayton–Kettering–Beavercreek, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of three counties in the Miami Valley region of Ohio and is anchored by the ...

  4. Montgomery County, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Montgomery County is in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. At the 2020 census, the population was 537,309, [2] making it the fifth-most populous county in Ohio. The county seat is Dayton. [3] The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general, who was killed in 1775 while attempting to ...

  5. Downtown Dayton - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Dayton is the central business district of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Major reinvestment in the downtown area began heavily in the mid-1990s, and continues today with $2 billion in residential, commercial, health, and transportation developments that has or is taking place in the downtown area. While much of the city's population ...

  6. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    With Ohio's population reaching 45,000 in December 1801, Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly and Ohio could begin the path to statehood. The assumption was the territory would have in excess of the required 60,000 residents by the time it became a state.

  7. University of Dayton - Wikipedia

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    University of Dayton. / 39.740415; -84.179213. The University of Dayton ( UD) is a private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, it is one of three Marianist Universities in the United States and the second-largest private university in Ohio. Its campus is located in southern Dayton and spans 388 ...

  8. Dayton History - Wikipedia

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    Dayton History. Dayton History [1] is an organization located in Dayton, Ohio, USA, formed in 2005 by the merger of the Montgomery County Historical Society (originally the Dayton Historical Society) and Dayton's Carillon Historical Park . The private non-profit (501c3) organization was established to acknowledge the history of Dayton, Ohio.

  9. List of people from Dayton, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    James Middleton Cox, Congressman, Ohio governor, 1920 Democratic presidential candidate, founder of Cox Enterprises; Richard Clay Dixon, former mayor of Dayton; Dave Hall, former mayor of Dayton; Tony P. Hall, former US Congressman; William A. Halteman, member of the Washington House of Representatives in 1895–1897 and 1907–1909