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Danville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Twiggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31017. The Survey maps it on the Danville East quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 454 feet above sea level.

Danville within Twiggs County

Population over time

2 figures

Danville fell from 238 to 165 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010238
2020165-73 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

374 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Danville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,569 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 28 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning218
Equipment and vehicle use52
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Smoking20
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural10

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BLECKLEY002
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON004
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BLECKLEY003
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning5.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Danville$100,000A National Weather Service survey team found an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 95 MPH touched down between Moore Road and I-16 where it damaged two manufactured homes, one significantly with the majority of the roof lifted and partial collapse of the front exterior wall. Several trees surrounding the homes were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued northeast crossing I-16 where a 300 yard swath of trees were down on either side of the interstate. Just west of the Wilkinson County line the tornado caused significant damage along State Highway 112, or Main Street, with two storage trailers sustaining major damage and several trees snapped or uprooted. The tornado then weakened but continued tracking northeast crossing into Wilkinson County on the southwest side of Allentown. [04/01/16: Tornado #4, County #1-2, EF1, Twiggs-Wilkinson, 2016:004].
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDanville$10,000Trees and multiple power lines down across the road near the intersection of Oak Street and 1st Street in Danville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDanville$8,000The Twiggs County 911 Center reported trees and power lines blown down along I-16 near Danville.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDanville$5,000Report of a home sustaining damage on the 19000 block of Hwy 80. Unknown if a tree caused the damage or just the wind.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDanville$3,000Several small trees were downed on Lucy Chapel Rd.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDanville$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down near I-16 and Hwy 358.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindDanville$1,000The Twiggs County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees and power lines were down along Coolsprings Road in the extreme southeast part of the county.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindDanville$500GEMA relayed a motorist's report of trees down in a wooded area near I-16 and Georgia highway 358.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDanville-Tree reported down on Nobles Rd near the intersection of Cool Springs Rd.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDanville-Report of a tree down on powerlines on Prospect Church Rd.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDanville-Tree and powerlines reported down at the intersection of Hwy 80 and Gallimore Mill Rd.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDanville-Tree reported down in jack clay rd near the intersection with Gallimore rd.
August 1997HailDanville-WMAZ TV in Macon received a report of dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Twiggs County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Allentown1.4 miles8
District Path7.1 miles10
Mount Olive7.7 miles10
Jeffersonville7.8 miles11
Marion10.9 miles11
Tarversville11.3 miles10
Ripley12.3 miles11
Mount Calvary12.7 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DanvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1906737The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355443. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.