Danville, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Danville City. It lies in ZIP code area 52623. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle. 927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
On record in Danville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Dennis Melcher Melcher Pottery and Houselisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresDanville fell from 934 to 927 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 934 | |
| 2020 | 927 | -7 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Danville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Danville in 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Danville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renner Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $3,000 | 6-10 inch diameter trees down; power lines down with corn flattened. |
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Danville | - | Water flowing into homes, apartments, and the school. Water flowing over highway in Danville. 2 feet of standing water on Main Street and several gravel roads washed out west of Danville. There was an unofficial report of 9.0 inches of measured rainfall in Danville. Time estimated based on radar and fire/rescue information. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | Several 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down, and across power lines. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | A trained spotter reported a tree with several large branches off. along with corn stocks blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | A trained spotter reported that some large tree limbs snapped. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Danville | - | A public report of 1.5 inch diameter hail was received through social media. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | A large, 24 inch diameter limb snapped off a tree at mile marker 252 on Highway 34. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | The Emergency Manager for Des Moines County reported 10 to 12 inch diameter tree branches down. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Danville | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Danville, IA at 1130 pm June 1. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Danville | - | At Harmony Bible Church |
| April 2006 | Hail | Danville | - | Jct U.S. 34 & X27; dime size hail with a lot of pea hail |
| April 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Danville | - | Funnel and wall cloud north of Danville. |
| April 2006 | Heavy Rain | Danville | - | Deputy reported zero visibility at the intersection of U.S. 34 and X27. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | Localized but extensive damage occurred due to a downburst. Damage was first reported in Danville where a large tree was blown onto a vehicle, several windows were blown out of a home, and numerous tree limbs were blown down. In West Burlington, a grain silo was blown into trees bringing down trees and power lines. The path of damage continued into downtown Burlington where numerous power lines and poles were blown down, trees were knocked over onto several vehicles, a grain silo was toppled, and a billboard was blown onto a police vehicle. The last report of damage was near the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport, where construction signs and billboards were blown down. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Danville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danville Center | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Prairie Grove | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Middletown | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Beaverdale | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Kline | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Augusta | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| West Burlington | 8.8 miles | 17 |
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 Danville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q774105 | The 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 455791. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.





