Dawson may refer to:

People and fictional characters

  • Dawson (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
  • Dawson (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name

Places

Antarctica

  • Dawson Head, Palmer Land
  • Dawson Nunatak, Mac. Robertson Land
  • Dawson Peak, Ross Dependency

Australia

  • Division of Dawson, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
  • Dawson River (New South Wales)
  • Dawson River (Queensland), a river in eastern Queensland, Australia
  • Dawson, South Australia, a locality and former town northeast of Peterborough

Canada

  • Dawson City, Yukon
  • Dawson (electoral district), Yukon Territory
  • Dawson Range (Yukon), in the Yukon Ranges
  • Dawson Creek, a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada
  • Dawson Range (British Columbia)
  • Dawson Falls, British Columbia
  • Dawson, Ontario, a township
  • Dawson Township, Manitoulin District, Ontario

United States

  • Dawson, Alabama, a small community
  • Dawson, Georgia, a city
  • Dawson, Illinois, a village
  • Dawson, Iowa, a city
  • Dawson Springs, Kentucky, formerly known as "Dawson City"
  • Dawson, Maryland, an unincorporated community
  • Dawson, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Dawsonville, Missouri, an extinct hamlet
  • Dawson, Minnesota, a city
  • Dawson, Nebraska, a village
  • Dawson, New Mexico, a ghost town
  • Dawson, North Dakota
  • Dawson, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Dawson, Oregon, an unincorporated community
  • Dawson, Pennsylvania, a borough
  • Dawson Historic District, a national historic district located at Dawson, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
  • Dawson, Texas, a town
  • Dawson County, Georgia
  • Dawson Forest, a public-use forest located in Dawson County, Georgia
  • Dawson County, Montana
  • Dawson County, Nebraska
  • Dawson County, Texas
  • Dawson, Austin, Texas, a neighborhood
  • Camp Dawson (New Jersey), a small recreational area
  • Dawson, West Virginia
  • Camp Dawson (West Virginia), an Army National Guard facility
  • Dawson Peak, a mountain in Angeles National Forest, California
  • Dawson Township, McLean County, Illinois
  • Dawson Township, Greene County, Iowa

Elsewhere

  • Dawson Island, in the Strait of Magellan, Chile
  • Te Rere o Kapuni, New Zealand, a waterfall also known as Dawson Falls
  • Dawson, Singapore, a public housing estate in Queenstown, Singapore
  • Dawson (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon

Transportation

  • Dawson Highway, Queensland, Australia
  • Dawson railway station, a closed station in Victoria, Australia
  • Dawson Bridge, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Old Dawson Trail, a 19th century route between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Dawson Street, Dublin, Ireland
  • Dawson Community Airport, Dawson County, Montana, United States
  • USS Dawson (APA-79), a US Navy World War II attack transport

Education

  • Dawson College, Quebec, Canada
  • Dawson Community College, Glendive, Montana
  • Dawson School, an historic school building located in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Buildings

  • Dawson Bank Museum, museum and historic building in Dawson, Minnesota
  • Dawson Brothers Plant, a historic factory building
  • Dawson Building, a historic building at 1851 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Dawson Farm, a historic property located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland
  • Dawson Tower, located on Kadugannawa in the Kadugannawa Pass

Sport

  • Dawson City Nuggets, a hockey team from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
  • Dawson Creek Kodiaks, a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
  • Dawson Creek Rage, an ice hockey team based out of Dawson Creek, British Columbia

Other uses

  • Dawson baronets, two titles in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
  • Dawson Car Company, an American car manufacturer from 1919 to 1921
  • Dawson v. Delaware, a United States Supreme Court decision about a person's rights of association and due process

See also

  • Dawson function, a mathematical function
  • Dawson murder case, parents and five children were murdered in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2002
  • Dawson Massacre or Expedition, an 1842 clash between Mexico and the Republic of Texas
  • Dawson's (disambiguation)