THE DAYTON LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Dayton city has 55.8 square miles of land in Greene County, Montgomery County. Its Census reference point is in Loamy High Lime Till Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Dayton intersects 2 county geographies: Greene County, Montgomery County. A Dayton mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Dayton by land and water
The Census records 1.15 square miles of water within Dayton, or 2% of its total area. It is 6.8 percentage points lower than the 8.8% recorded for Ohio. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dayton city has 14.2 times the land area of nearby Shiloh CDP (3.92 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

