Dansville, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in North Dansville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14437. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dansville quadrangle. 4,433 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Dansville
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 8 records
Dansville Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2007
Dansville Librarylisted 1977
Englesidelisted 2009
Elias H. Geiger Houselisted 2006
William Hartman Farmsteadlisted 2000
Pioneer Farmlisted 1970
US Post Office-Dansvillelisted 1988- English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dansvillelisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresDansville fell from 4,719 to 4,433 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 | 4,719 | |
| 2020 | 4,433 | -286 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 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.
- 1902 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Dansville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
160 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Dansville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 107 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 25 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.9 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 24 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 13 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dansville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dansville Well | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Gruschow No.1 Well | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Highway Department Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Highway Department Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kennedy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dansville in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Dansville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Dansville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $40,000 | Winds tore off portion of the Dansville High School roof. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $35,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. A tree fell on a house in Dansville. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Dansville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $20,000 | Local television showed a tree down on a house. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Morey Avenue. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Park Avenue. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Hartman Road. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $11,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $2,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $2,000 | Multiple trees and wires were reported down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dansville | $1,000 | Trees down onto Park Avenue. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Dansville | - | Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Dansville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumminsville | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Woodsville | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Reed Corners | 2.8 miles | 24 | |
| Ossian | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| Byersville | 5.3 miles | 20 | |
| West Sparta | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Westview | 6.9 miles | 20 | |
| Libertypole | 6.9 miles | 22 |
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 Dansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461681 | 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 948024. 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.








