Danville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 17,236 at the 2020 census. Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties. In 2001, Danville received a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2011, Money magazine placed Danville as the fourth-best place to retire in the United States. Centre College in Danville was selected to host U.S. vice-presidential debates in 2000 and 2012.
Southeast
Danville
Boyle County, KY
Population
17,191
Walk Score
62 · Somewhat Walkable
Median rent
$765
Median home value
$181,500
Settled
1783
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On the National Register
Historic districts
- Constitution Square Historic District · listed 1976
- Danville Commercial District · listed 1986
- East Main Street Historic District · listed 1986
- Harrodsburg Pike Rural Historic District · listed 1998
- Lexington Avenue-Broadway Historic District · listed 1987
- Maple Avenue District · listed 1987
- McGrorty Avenue-Old Wilderness Road Historic District · listed 2019
- Moore, Christopher Collins, Farm · listed 1994
- St. Mildred's Court-West Lexington Avenue Historic Distric t · listed 1994
- Terrace Court Historic District · listed 2010
- Three Gothic Villas · listed 1977
- Todd-Montgomery Houses · listed 1976
- Warehouse District · listed 1986
Notable landmarks
- Barbee, Thomas, House · listed 2019
- Birney, James, House
- Boyle County Courthouse · listed 1973
- Boyle, Judge John, House · listed 1980
- Bright, T.B., House and Farmstead · listed 1997
- Buster, Nimrod I., House and Farmstead · listed 1997
- Caldwell House · listed 1983
- Caldwell, Charles W., House · listed 1999
- Caldwell, W. Logan, Farmstead · listed 1999
- Cambus-Kenneth Estate · listed 1977
- Carnegie Library · listed 1986
- Cincinnati Southern Railroad Culvert-CSRR · listed 1998
- Confederate Monument in Danville · listed 1997
- Crow-Barbee House · listed 1983
- Crutchfield House (Bo-D-138)
- Danville Cemetery
- Danville National Cemetery · listed 1998
- Durham House
- Dutch Barn · listed 1998
- First Presbyterian Church · listed 1986
- Forest Hill · listed 1989
- Gentry House · listed 1997
- Goodall Building · listed 2014
- Gore House
- Granite Hill Farmstead · listed 1997
- …and 38 more
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