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Welcome to Dunn ...So far, we found very little information about Dunn. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Dunn to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dunn, please Contact Us. Dunn would have been located within present day Benton County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Dunn, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Dunn, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907. While the community is gone, the present day location for Dunn is 790 feet [241 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Dunn was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Dunn (for example, toward Wellington (IL)), you will soon leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). If Dunn still existed, it would have been in the (765) area code. Communities Also Named Dunn ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 19 communities that are also named Dunn - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (3), California, Florida, Georgia (3), Illinois, Louisiana, Manitoba, Missouri (2), North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dunn. Communities near Dunn ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Dunn.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Dunn. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dunn. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dunn. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dunn. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Dunn. See our Newspapers Page for Dunn. Adding Dunn to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Dunn in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Dunn was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Dunn on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1908. For more details, see References and Mentions for Dunn. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Indiana: https://www.in.gov Footnotes ...
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