Danby is the primary
hamlet
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and a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...
(CDP) in the
town of Danby,
Tompkins County,
New York, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
[
The community is in southern Tompkins County, in the north-central part of the town of Danby. It is in a valley at the headwaters of Buttermilk Creek, which flows north over Buttermilk Falls to ]Cayuga Inlet
Cayuga Inlet is a river located in Tompkins County, New York. It flows into the south end of Cayuga Lake by Ithaca, New York.
Development
Cayuga Inlet is a popular and well-connected location for boating. Boaters are able to travel from Cayuga I ...
and then into Cayuga Lake
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at Ithaca.
New York State Route 96B
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runs through the center of Danby, leading north to Ithaca
Ithaca most commonly refers to:
*Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey''
*Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca
*Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College
Ithaca, Ithaka ...
and southeast to Candor
Candor or candour may refer to:
* Candor or parrhesia, the quality of speaking candidly in rhetoric
* ''Candour'' (magazine), a British far-right magazine
* "Candour", a song by Neck Deep from their 2014 album '' Wishful Thinking''
* Duty of c ...
.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Tompkins County, New York
Census-designated places in New York (state)
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