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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.

Danville within Harper County

Population over time

2 figures

Danville 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.

YearPeople Change
201038
202029-9 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

5 since 2016

Regional 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service201858
27 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHarper County201727
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service201819
28 February 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16008
21 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service201805

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harper County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F1)Danville$100,000The tornado hit a machine shop and caused considerable damage.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDanville$75,000ONE BARN DESTROYED & ONE SILO DAMAGED.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindDanville$25,000Roof damage was reported on 4 homes.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDanville$10,000Power lines, power poles and trees downed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDanville-Tree limbs were reported down with the sizes unknown.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDanville-A very large tree was uprooted. Power lines were also reported down.
May 2015HailDanville-Half dollar sized hail was reported accumulating and drifting. Via a Kake TV storm spotter.
July 2009HailDanville-Hail covered the ground. Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDanville-Reported by a KAKE TV storm chaser.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Danville-Tornado moved over open country on doing damage to trees.
May 2015HailDanville-no account filed
May 2012HailDanville-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDanville-no account filed
May 2004HailDanville-no account filed
April 2002HailDanville-no account filed
June 2001HailDanville-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDanville-no account filed
June 1998HailDanville-no account filed
June 1998HailDanville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDanville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harper 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
Runnymede5.2 miles19
Freeport6.3 miles19
Harper7.1 miles15
Duquoin11.7 miles15
Anthony11.8 miles16
Hawk12.8 miles19
Crystal Springs13.0 miles15
Bluff City14.5 miles19

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 Q2341251The 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.