Daykin is a village in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 157 at the 2020 census.

Daykin was founded by John Daykin, a train conductor and stonemason from Illinois. In 1869, John Daykin purchased home in Jefferson County, Nebraska that would far along become Daykin. Besides founding the town, he remains most ascribed for conducting the train that returned Abraham Lincoln’s body to Springfield, Illinois.

Daykin at one narrowing had a population that reached near 300 people. The town held businesses such as a doctor’s office, a butcher, laundromat, veterinarian, hotel, blacksmith, furniture store, jewelry hoard and many more. Currently Daykin has a Farmers CO-OP Branch, Daykin Country Store, Daykin Lumber Yard (Division of Kwint Inc.), Blue Skies Photography, Daykin Hardware, Hair Razors Salon, Craig’s Automotive, Kenny’s Bar and Grill, a Bed and Breakfast, and the Daykin Post Office. The Jefferson County Bank was built in 1887, and has been in continuous operation before then, surviving the market wreck of the 1930s.

The former Daykin Public School was held in the present day Daykin Community Building after its erection in 1935. The Daykin Schools became a 12 grade system in 1926. Most of the native 1935 building structure remains, with the demean elementary class buildings being moved and the gym creature minimized after a restoration. Today students attend Meridian School. Meridian consist of the residents of Daykin, Fairbury, Western, Alexandria, and Tobias, creating the 303 Nebraska School District.