Dayton, Texas City of Dayton Dayton is a town/city in Liberty County, Texas, United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.0 square miles (28 km2), all land.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 71.08% White, 19.69% African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.68% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 6.67% from other competitions, and 1.40% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.0% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 16.3% of families and 21.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 33.6% of those under age 18 and 15.8% of those age 65 or over.
Highway 90 six miles west of Liberty in southwestern Liberty County, was first called West Liberty and was considered part of the initial town of Liberty, established in 1831.
The Trinity River divided the two parts of the town: Liberty was on its east bank, and West Liberty was on a hill three miles west of the river.
The West Liberty postal service was apparently discontinued after a several years.
Thompson was authorized to survey and plat the town of West Liberty.
Sometime after 1854, West Liberty also became known as Day's Town, for I.
The flag stop for the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, instead of in 1860, was known variously as West Liberty, Days Station, and Dayton Station.
The name Dayton was applied to the small-town postal service in 1877, though the official name of the town remained West Liberty until the mid-1880s.
In 1885 Dayton reported a populace of sixty, and in 1890 a postal service, a school, and two churches served its 239 residents.
Texas governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., was born in Dayton on October 10, 1910; his brother Bill Daniel, governor of the United States Territory of Guam from 1961 through 1963, was born in Dayton on November 20, 1915.
By 1940 Dayton reported 1,207 inhabitants and seventy businesses and was listed as a barns center.
In 1989 the biggest school populace in the county made the Dayton Independent School District the primary employer in the city.
At that time Dayton directed under a mayor-council form of town/city government.
In 1990 Dayton had a populace of 5,151, and in 2000 the populace was 5,709.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Dayton District Parole Office in Dayton. In addition, the TDCJ operates some correctional facilities in the City limits of Dayton.
The United States Postal Service operates the Dayton Post Office. The District 18 seat in the Texas House of Representatives has been held since 2005 by the Republican John Otto, a Certified Public Accountant from Dayton.
Highway 90, traveling west towards Crosby and Houston and east into East Texas to Beaumont and forward to Louisiana.
SH 321 joins Dayton to Cleveland.
Within the town/city of Dayton, SH 321 is referred to as North Cleveland Street, passing through residentiary Dayton as a four-lane urban highway, before narrowing back down to a two-lane non-urban State Highway going north to Cleveland.
SH 146 provides Dayton with a connection to Baytown, and FM 1960 joins Dayton to the northern reaches of Houston as well as Humble and Huffman.
Dayton is the meeting point of two rail lines.
The BNSF has authority to operate its trains on the Baytown Subdivision from Dayton to just west of Baytown and has a rail yard just south of Dayton.
A study is being performed by the Texas Department of Transportation regarding a Dayton-to-Cleveland single mainline rail corridor consisting of approximately 40 miles of track connecting the UP Lufkin Subdivision and the BNSF Conroe Subdivision near Cleveland to the UPRR Baytown Subdivision south of Dayton.
The town/city of Dayton is served by the Dayton Independent School District.
Dayton was the site of a reported UFO incident on December 29, 1980 at 9:00 p.m.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Dayton has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "US Enumeration Bureau Population Finder: Baytown city, TX".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
2010 general profile of populace and housing characteristics from the US census for Dayton Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Climate Summary for Dayton, Texas Municipalities and communities of Liberty County, Texas, United States
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Cities in Texas - Cities in Liberty County, Texas - Greater Houston - Populated places established in 1911
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