Named in Honor of Dana
- Dana Park in Albany, New York, with a fountain/monument in his honor
- Mount Dana (and the nearby Dana Meadows) in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
- Dorsa Dana (a wrinkle-ridge system) on the Moon
- Danalite, a mineral.
- Dana Passage in Puget Sound, USA
- Dana, a crater on Mars
- The Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America was named for Dana and his son Edward Salisbury Dana. It recognizes outstanding scientific contributions through research in the mineralogical sciences by an individual in the midst of their career.
- The James Dwight Dana House in New Haven, Connecticut was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
- The fossil horseshoe crab Euproops danae
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