Danville, California Town of Danville The Clock Tower square in the heart of downtown Danville The Clock Tower square in the heart of downtown Danville Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California Town of Danville is positioned in the US Town of Danville - Town of Danville The Town of Danville is positioned in the San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, California.
Danville hosts a farmer's market each Saturday next to the San Ramon Valley Museum. The Iron Horse Regional Trail runs through Danville.
Extending from Dublin to Concord, the trail passes through Danville.
Danville is also home to the Village Theatre and Art Gallery, hosting children's theatre, Broadway shows and art discussions. For over 130 years, Danville's history has been one of change and growth. Often referred to as the "Heart of the San Ramon Valley," Danville was first populated by Native Americans who lived next to the creeks and camped on Mount Diablo in the summer.
Later it was part of Mission San Jose's grazing territory and a Mexican territory grant called Rancho San Ramon.
Initially a farming community, the Town of Danville switched from wheat to fruits and nuts after the Southern Pacific Railroad assembled a spur line through the region in 1891.
The Danville Post Office opened in 1860 with hotel owner Henry W.
Hearing stories of the prosperity to be found in California, citizens from the mid-west and east began to settle in Danville and the encircling valleys.
The 1869 census counted nearly 1800 citizens in the combined Danville and Lafayette areas.
The Danville Presbyterian Church was dedicated in 1875, following a vote of Protestants regarding what denomination it should be.
In 1873, Danville Grange No.
A remarkable number of early Danville buildings remain today such as the homes belonging to the Boone, Osborn, Young, Spilker, Podva, Vecki, Root, Elliott and Hartz families.
The initial 1874 Grange Hall exists as well, and the initial Danville Hotel remains downtown and is presently being renovated as of 2014.
When the Southern Pacific Railroad came to the Valley in 1891, Danville changed dramatically.
The farmers assembled warehouses and shipped crops by rail in any kind of weather, and the inhabitants traveled to and from Danville with an ease they had not experienced before.
John Hartz sold 8.65 acres (3.50 ha) of his territory for the Danville Depot and granted territory access to the station.
The Danville Hotel originally sat athwart from the station and was moved to face Hartz avenue in 1927. The twentieth century found Danville affected by the wars, the Spanish flu, the depression and new immigrants.
In 1910 a enhance high school precinct was organized and San Ramon Valley Union High School was built; a library supervised by Lillian Close opened in 1913 with 104 books; St.
Danville continued to be farm nation well into the 1940s.
Developments such as Montair and Cameo Acres were built, the water and sewage districts extended their boundaries, and the new I-680 freeway which sliced through Danville in the mid-1960s altered Danville permanently.
The 1980 census showed that 82 percent of Danville's 26,500 had appeared after 1970.
In 2000, Danville's populace reached 40,484.
Many newly prosperous individuals especially from the booming Silicon Valley looked to San Ramon Valley as a safe region with great schools, dominant to a large increase of Danville residents.
In 1982, Danville people voted to incorporate their community.
Adjoining suburbs and metros/cities are San Ramon to the south, Diablo, and Alamo to the north.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 18.0 square miles (47 km2), all of it land.
Danville is set in a narrow section of the San Ramon Valley with the Las Trampas Ridge to the west and the Diablo Range to the east.
The most prominent landmark of Danville is the backdrop of Mount Diablo, which stands to the east at 3,849 feet (1,173 m) and provides a picturesque backdrop for Danville and neighboring suburbs and cities.
Sycamore Creek drains some of the Mount Diablo slopes and flows through Danville.
Danville Las Trampas Regional Wilderness San Ramon San Ramon Climate data for Danville, California According to Business Insider, Danville's 94506 is the 14th wealthiest zip code in America. Danville is one of California's wealthiest cities, and one of the wealthiest suburbs of Oakland and San Francisco. Danville also rates as the 2nd highest-income place in the United States with a populace of at least 40,000.
Danville is home to some of the most expensive real estate and exclusive nation clubs in the nation.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Danville had a populace of 42,039.
The ethnic makeup of Danville was 34,942 (83.1%) White, 372 (0.9%) African American, 67 (0.2%) Native American, 4,417 (10.5%) Asian, 68 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 509 (1.2%) from other competitions, and 1,664 (4.0%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 41,796 citizens (99.4% of the population) lived in homeholds, 56 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 187 (0.4%) were institutionalized.
There were 15,420 homeholds, out of which 6,034 (39.1%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 10,389 (67.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,140 (7.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 449 (2.9%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 11,196 citizens (26.6%) under the age of 18, 2,117 citizens (5.0%) aged 18 to 24, 8,050 citizens (19.1%) aged 25 to 44, 14,628 citizens (34.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,048 citizens (14.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
36,137 citizens (86.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 5,659 citizens (13.5%) lived in rental housing units.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 86.30% White, 0.92% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 9.00% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.91% from other competitions, and 2.55% from two or more competitions.
There were 14,816 homeholds out of which 42.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 70.7% were married heterosexual couples living together, 7.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 19.9% were non-families.
In the town the populace was spread out with 28.6% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 29.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town of Danville is by far the most Republican political subdivision in heavily Democratic Contra Costa County as well as the entire East Bay.
According to the California Secretary of State, as of October 22, 2012, Danville has 28,577 registered voters.
Danville is one of the several remaining metros/cities or suburbs in the San Francisco Bay Area to have a plurality of Republican registered voters.
A cargo airline, Asia Pacific Airlines, is headquartered in Danville.
However, it conducts no operations in Danville (its chief base of operations is in Guam). 2 Keller Williams Realty Danville 212 6 Danville Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 81 Museum of the San Ramon Valley (located in the restored 1891 Southern Pacific depot) Danville South Park Danville Schools are encompassed in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.
San Ramon Valley High School The Danville Library of the Contra Costa County Library is positioned in Danville. The Danville International Children's Film Festival which has featured guests like Alyson Stoner, Joey Travolta, and Daryl Sabara.[dead link] Hot Summer Nights, which is held the third Thursday on Hartz Avenue in Downtown Danville in July and August, features hundreds of vintage pre-1960s automobiles on display with live music.
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Area reported as Alamo-Danville amid the 1970 census, which recorded a populace of 14,059.
(The separate communities of Alamo and Danville were not returned separately by the census).
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