unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
Australia
* The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania
United Kingdom
* The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery
United States
* Montgomery County, Alabama
* Montg ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 28.
History
Danville was laid out in 1834 and named after
Danville, Virginia
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, the native home of an early settler. A post office at Danville was established in 1834, and remained in operation until 1942. A census-designated place named after the village, and including it, was established in or after 1980, and census-based demographics since that establishment reflect the entire CDP and not just the village proper.
Geography
Danville is in western Montgomery County, on the north side of
Interstate 70
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/
U.S. Route 40
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, with access from Exit 170,
Missouri Route 161
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Route description
History
Missouri R ...
St. Louis
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, while Route 161 leads north to Montgomery City. There is a combined gas station-food store-lunch counter-florist shop just off the interstate, an automotive repair shop in the village, and a quarry operation just outside it; and no other businesses or services.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Danville CDP has a total area of , of which , or 1.57%, are water. The community sits on a ridge which drains north to Rumbo Branch and south to Sallee Branch, both west-flowing tributaries of the
Loutre River
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, part of the
Missouri River
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watershed.
Demographics
Education
It is in the
Montgomery County R-II School District
Montgomery refers to:
People
For people with the name Montgomery, see Montgomery (name)
Places Belgium
* Montgomery Square, Brussels
* Montgomery metro station, Brussels
Pakistan
* Montgomery (town), British India, former name of Sahiwal, Punja ...