Dahinda is in Persifer Township and lies approximately one mile north of U.S. Highway 150 and Interstate 74.

It contains a freight and express office, two stores, a blacksmith shop, a grain elevator, and twenty-five dwellings, one of which is a boarding house.

"All the air was white with moonlight, All the water black with shadow, And around him the Suggema, The mosquito, sang his war-song, And the fire-flies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him; And the bull-frog, the Dahinda, thrust his head into the moonlight, Fixed his yellow eyes upon him, Sobbed and sank beneath the surface."

According to local lore the construction workers for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway were trying to sleep in their tents at the site where Dahinda now stands.

As of 2010, the town has a post office, fire station, several houses, the Barn Bed and Breakfast, and the Dahinda United Methodist Church.

A large smokestack for the pumping station can be seen for miles in the Court Creek Valley, and is a focal point for the town.