- Location: South Africa, USA
1. South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal): named after the village of North Dalton in Yorkshire, the original home of an immigrant who organized the settlement in South Africa of people from Yorkshire.
2. USA (Georgia): founded as Cross Plains in 1837, it is thought to have been renamed either after General Tristram Dalton, speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, or after John Dalton, the engineer who designed the town.
