Danville (Vermont)

Danville
Danville Post Office
Location in Vermont
Danville
Basic data
Foundation :	October 31, 1786
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 25 ′  N , 72 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 25 ′  N , 72 ° 8 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,196 (as of 2010)
Population density :	13.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	158.4 km 2  (approx. 61 mi 2 ) of which 157.7 km 2  (approx. 61 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	486 m
Postal code :	05828
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-17125
GNIS ID :	1462080
Website :	www.DanvilleVT.com

Danville is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2196 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Danville is in the west of Caledonia County on the border with Washington County , in the northeast of the Green Mountains . Many smaller streams and rivers drain the town, like the Joes Brook in the south of the town, they mostly flow in an easterly direction into the Passumpsic River . There are several lakes in the town's area, the largest being Joels Pond in the southwest. The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is the 730 m high Kittredge Hill .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Wheelock , 3.6 mi
• Northeast: Lyndon , 8.1 mi
• East: St. Johnsbury , 8.4 miles
• Southeast: Barnet , 4.8 mi
• South: Peacham , 9.0 km
• Southwest: Cabot , 18.2 km
• West: Walden , 7 miles
• North-west: Stannard , 6.5 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Danville ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.0 ° C (68 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.

history

The Danville Grant was proclaimed on October 27, 1786 and on October 31, 1786 it was granted to Jacob Baily, Jesse Leavenworth, and others. In 1792 the Walden Gore area was added to the town. Named after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (a cartographer with ties to Vermont), Danville was named the county seat in 1796, ten years after the area was first settled , and remained so until 1852. Then the administrative headquarters were transferred to the neighboring St. Johnsbury , at that time the emerging industrial center of the area. No other significant historical events have survived.

religion

Danville is characterized by the strong Methodist congregation that maintains three churches in the village. In addition, there is also a Roman Catholic church and a branch of the United Church of Christ .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Danville
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										574
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1514	2240	2300	2631	2633	2577	2544	2216	2003	1784
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1628	1564	1494	1600	1472	1312	1368	1405	1705	1917
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2211	2196

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Located on the east-west junction of US Highway 2 , Danville is well connected to the New England road network. In addition, to the northeast near Lyndonville, Caledonia State Airport is just 15 kilometers away.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Danville. The closest is Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

education

Danville is part of the Caledonia Central Supervisory Union with Barnet, Peacham, Walden and Waterford . The Danville School is located in Danville . She offers classes from pre-kindergarten through high school graduation in the twelfth grade.

The Pope Memorial Library is located on Park Street in Danville.

The Danville Historical Society takes care of the preservation of history .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Benjamin F. Deming (1790–1834), politician and member of the House of Representatives.
• Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868), lawyer and member of the House of Representatives, popular advocate of the liberation of slaves .
• Beth Chamberlin (born 1963), actress.

Personalities who have worked on site

• William A. Palmer (1781–1860), politician and governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 62 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 854 ff .

Web links

Commons : Danville, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• City website
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Historical Society website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Town of Danville in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 18, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Kittredge Hill on Peakery.com , accessed June 10, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Danville on the City Daty portal , accessed June 10, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ↑ Caledonia Central Supervisory Union , accessed June 10, 2017
8. ^ Danville School , accessed June 10, 2017
9. ^ Pope Memorial Library , accessed June 10, 2017
10. ^ Danville Historical Society , accessed June 10, 2017