Danville, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 67036. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDanville fell from 38 to 29 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 | 38 | |
| 2020 | 29 | -9 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1889 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000, 10 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Danville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Danville between 2016 and 2018, burning under an 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201858 |
| 27 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Harper County | 201727 |
| 7 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201819 |
| 28 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16008 |
| 21 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201805 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Danville | $100,000 | The tornado hit a machine shop and caused considerable damage. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $75,000 | ONE BARN DESTROYED & ONE SILO DAMAGED. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $25,000 | Roof damage was reported on 4 homes. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | $10,000 | Power lines, power poles and trees downed. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | Tree limbs were reported down with the sizes unknown. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | A very large tree was uprooted. Power lines were also reported down. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Danville | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported accumulating and drifting. Via a Kake TV storm spotter. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Danville | - | Hail covered the ground. Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Danville | - | Tornado moved over open country on doing damage to trees. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runnymede | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Freeport | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Harper | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Duquoin | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Anthony | 11.8 miles | 16 | |
| Hawk | 12.8 miles | 19 | |
| Crystal Springs | 13.0 miles | 15 | |
| Bluff City | 14.5 miles | 19 |
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 Q2341251 | 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 470194. 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.






