Dalton may refer to:

Science

Dalton (crater) Dalton is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon's near side. It is attached to the eastern rim of the walled plain Einstein (crater), Einstein, with Balboa (lunar crater), Balboa lying just to the n ...

, a lunar crater *

Dalton (program) Dalton (named after John Dalton) is an ab initio quantum chemistry computer program suite, consisting of the Dalton and LSDalton programs. The Dalton suite is capable of calculating various molecular properties using the Hartree–Fock, MP2 ...

, chemistry software *

Dalton (unit) The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u, respectively) is a unit of mass defined as of the mass of an Bound state, unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state and invariant mass, at rest. It is ...

(Da), a.k.a. unified atomic mass unit *

John Dalton John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry. He also researched Color blindness, colour blindness; as a result, the umbrella term ...

, chemist, physicist and meteorologist * 12292 Dalton, an asteroid

Entertainment

Dalton (Buffyverse) Major and recurring characters created by Joss Whedon for the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' are as follows: Cast Main cast The following characters were featured in the opening credits of the program. Recurring cast Notable ...

, minor character from ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series *

Dalton (band) Dalton is a Danish supergroup made up of singers Lars Lilholt Lars Lilholt (born in Herlev, Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom o ...

, Danish musical band * Dalton (Chrono Trigger), non-playable main character in ''Chrono Trigger'' * The Dalton Brothers (band), a parodistic country band created by U2 * The Daltons (''Lucky Luke''), fictional outlaws in ''Lucky Luke'' comic book series * Dalton Academy, a fictional school in the TV series ''Glee'' * Dalton Russell, character played by Clive Owen in 2006 film ''Inside Man'' * ''The Daltons'' (2010 TV series), a French animated TV series

Places

United Kingdom

Dalton-le-Dale Dalton-le-Dale is a village in County Durham, in England. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 1,546. It is situated on the old A19 road between Seaham and Murton. Most of the village is located in a wooded valley bottom, straddli ...

, County Durham, England *

Dalton-in-Furness Dalton-in-Furness is a town in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, north east of Barrow-in-Furness. Along with the rest of the Furness peninsula, it was historically part of Lancashire. It is in the parish of Dalton Town with Newton, a ...

, Cumbria (historically in Lancashire), England *

Dalton, Cumbria Dalton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton-in-Kendal, in the Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England. Until 1894 it was in Lancashire, but was transferred to Westmorland "in accordance with the unanimous ...

, near Burton-in-Kendal (historically in Lancashire), England *

Dalton, Dumfries and Galloway The village of Dalton is a small settlement about southeast of Dumfries and south of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village has an 18th-century church, one of its past ministers being The Rev. John W. Morris MA, who is bu ...

, Scotland *

Dalton, Hambleton Dalton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is about south of Thirsk and near the A168 road. It mainly consists of farmland as well as an industrial estate. It has a population of 518. History The top ...

, North Yorkshire, England * Dalton, Hexhamshire, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

in Northumberland, England *

Dalton, Lancashire Dalton is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, near Skelmersdale and south of the River Douglas. Dalton was listed in the Domesday Book, and soon after the Norman conquest became part of the Barony of Manchester. It remained ...

, near Skelmersdale, England *

Dalton, Richmondshire Dalton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire in England. Dalton is situated about six miles north-west of Richmond and about five miles south-east of Barnard Castle, close to the A66 trans-Pennine trunk road. It was listed in the Do ...

, North Yorkshire, England * Dalton, South Lanarkshire, a

in Scotland *

Dalton, South Yorkshire Dalton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. Dalton is situated north from London and is north-east from the centre of Rotherham town centre. The population of the parish as taken at the 2011 ...

, England * Dalton, Stamfordham, a

in Northumberland, England *

Dalton, West Yorkshire Dalton is a suburb of Huddersfield, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire in England, approximately one mile east of the town centre between Moldgreen, Rawthorpe and Kirkheaton. Located in a small valley it is mostly housing, with a sm ...

, England

United States

Dalton, Georgia Dalton is a city and the county seat of Whitfield County, Georgia, Whitfield County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. It is also the principal city of the Dalton metropolitan area, Dalton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encomp ...

Dalton Gardens, Idaho Dalton Gardens is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is considered a suburb of Coeur d'Alene and borders the city to the north and east. The city of Dalton Gardens is also part of the larger Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Combined Met ...

Dalton City, Illinois Dalton City is a village in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States. It is in the center of the state near the Macon County line. The population was 454 at the 2020 census, down from 544 in 2010. History Dalton City was incorporated as a vil ...

Dalton, Indiana Dalton is an unincorporated community in Dalton Township, Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Dalton was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piec ...

Dalton Township, Wayne County, Indiana Dalton Township is one of fifteen townships in Wayne County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 566 and it contained 239 housing units. History Dalton Township was organized in 1847. Geography According to the 20 ...

* Dalton, Kansas *

Dalton, Massachusetts Dalton is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Dalton is a transition town between the urban and rural portions of Berkshire County. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The populatio ...

Dalton Township, Michigan Dalton Township is a civil township of Muskegon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 9,427. History Dalton Township was established in 1859. Geography The township is in central Muskegon Coun ...

Dalton, Minnesota Dalton is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 215 at the 2020 census. History Dalton was platted in 1882 by Ole C. Dahl, and named after him. A post office has been in operation at Dalton since 1882. Da ...

* Dalton, Missouri *

Dalton, Nebraska Dalton is a village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 315 at the 2010 census. History Early history Dalton was founded ''circa'' 1900 when the Nebraska, Wyoming and Western Railroad was extended to that point. T ...

Dalton, New Hampshire Dalton is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 933 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH-VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Dalton was incorporated in 1764 under the name "Chiswick", na ...

* Dalton, New York * Dalton, North Carolina *

Dalton, Ohio Dalton is a village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census indicated a population of 1,927. History Dalton had its start in 1855 with the merging of three neighboring rival villages in Sugar Creek Township named Dover (est. 181 ...

Dalton, Pennsylvania Dalton is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located approximately eight miles north of the city of Scranton in a suburban area known as "the Abingtons." Dalton is also app ...

* Dalton Creek, a stream in Utah *

Dalton, Wisconsin Dalton is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Kingston located in the southwestern corner of Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on Wisconsin Highway 44. It uses ZIP code 53926. As of the 2020 cen ...

Elsewhere

* Dalton, Algoma District, Ontario * Dalton Township, Ontario *

Dalton, Israel Dalton () is a moshav near Safed in northern Israel under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. It was founded by immigrants from Tripoli in Libya in 1950 under the leadership of Hapoel HaMizrachi. The moshav is built near the ruins ...

* Dalton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa *

Dalton, New South Wales Dalton is a small inland country town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Lachlan Shire. The population was 230 in the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. A small river, Oolong Creek, runs through the town, which ...

, Australia

Transportation

Dalton Airport (Michigan) Dalton Airport is a privately owned, public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) east of the central business district of Flushing, in Genesee County, Michigan, United States. It is named after its founder, Edwin P. Dalton, ...

in Flushing, Michigan, United States * Dalton Municipal Airport in Dalton, Georgia *

Dalton Highway The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within t ...

, in Alaska, United States *

Dalton Trail The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon, Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km (246 mi) long. Originally, th ...

, a trail between Alaska and Canada *

Dalton station (Ontario) The Township of Dalton was a Township (Canada), municipality located in the northwest corner of the former Victoria County, Ontario, Victoria County, now a Township (Canada)#Ontario, geographic township in the city of Kawartha Lakes, in the Canad ...

, in Canada *

Dalton railway station Dalton is a railway station on the Furness Line, which serves the town of Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History Construction of the Furness Railway was authorised in May 18 ...

, in Cumbria, England

Other uses

* Dalton (given name) *

Dalton (surname) Dalton is a surname of Norman origin found in Ireland and Britain and places where people from those backgrounds emigrated to. The Hiberno-Norman D'Alton (later Dalton) family controlled an area of the Irish midlands following the Norman invasion a ...

Dalton Gang The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because three of its members were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted doub ...

, American Old West outlaws * Dalton Armoury, Scarborough, Ontario, a Canadian Forces facility *

Dalton Barracks Dalton Barracks is a military installation near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England and home to 4 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps. The site is set to close in 2031. History The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Abingdon airbas ...

, Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire *

Dalton Castle, Cumbria Dalton Castle is a grade I listed 14th-century peel tower situated in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It was constructed by the monks of Furness Abbey for the protection of the nearby market town ...

, in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England *

Dalton Plan The Dalton Plan is an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst. It is inspired by the intellectual ferment at the turn of the 20th century. Educational thinkers such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey influenced Parkhurst while she created ...

, an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst *

Dalton School The Dalton School, originally the Children's University School, is a private, coeducational college preparatory school in New York City and a member of both the Ivy Preparatory School League and the New York Interschool. The school is located in ...

, a private school in New York City *

Dalton State College Dalton State College (DSC or Dalton State) is a public college in Dalton, Georgia, United States. It is part of the University System of Georgia. Founded in 1963 as a junior college, the college became a four-year institution in 1998. Dalton Sta ...

, one of eight state colleges in the University System of Georgia *

Dalton tradition The Dalton tradition is a Late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic projectile point tradition. It is named after S. P. Dalton, a judge who first discovered these artifacts in Missouri. These points appeared in most of southeast North America from to a ...

, a distinctive shape of stone arrowhead *

Dalton Winery The Dalton Winery () was founded in 1995 by members of the Haruni family who moved to Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north ...

, a winery in Israel * Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences, One Dalton Street