Dunnington is a small unincorporated town

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Parish Grove Township

Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana

Parish Grove Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 267. It contains the unincorporated town of Freeland Park.-History:...

, Benton County

Benton County, Indiana

Benton County is located along in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Indiana, along the border with Illinois. As of 2010, the county's population was 8,854. It contains six incorporated towns as well as several small unincorporated settlements; it is also divided into 11 townships which...

, Indiana

Indiana

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, United States

United States

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, now virtually extinct. Named for John Dunn, it stands about one and a half miles west of its smaller sister town, Dunn

Dunn, Indiana

Dunn is a ghost town in Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States. Named for Capt. James Dunn, it stands about one and a half miles east of Dunnington. In the 1920s it had two general stores, a grain elevator and about half a dozen residences...

. In the early 20th century it supported a Catholic church and school, a general store, a Forresters lodge and about half a dozen residences (an estimate similar to the town's current size). St. Mary's Catholic Church, establish 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.

Geography

Dunnington is located at 40°33′51"N 87°29′27"W, in fertile farm land on the border of Parish Grove Township

Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana

Parish Grove Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 267. It contains the unincorporated town of Freeland Park.-History:...

 and Hickory Grove Township

Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana

Hickory Grove Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 404. It was organized in March 1876 and named for a grove that grew within its borders in the 19th century.-Unincorporated towns:* Dunn...

, two miles east of the border with Illinois

Illinois

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. Indiana State Road 71

Indiana State Road 71

State Road 71 in west-central Indiana consists of two discontinuous north–south segments of two-lane rural roadway near the Illinois border.-Southern section:...

passes north through the town, and a small creek named Kult Ditch flows northwest toward Mud Creek.