Danville is a home rule-class city in Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 17,236 at the 2020 Census. Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes everything of the Boyle and Lincoln counties. In 2001, Danville acknowledged 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.

Within Kentucky, Danville is called the “City of Firsts”:

Danville was allowance of the Great Settlement Area roughly Fort Harrod (present-day Harrodsburg), which was first fixed in 1774. The site was originally known as Crow’s Station for settler John Crow, but the town was surveyed and platted by Walker Daniel, Kentucky’s first district attorney, who bought 76 acres (31 ha) near the Wilderness Road from Crow in 1783. The city was named for Daniel. The Virginia legislature officially time-honored Danville on December 4, 1787.

Between 1784 and 1792, ten conventions were held in Danville to petition for greater than before governance and ultimately to secure independence from Virginia. In 1786 the Danville Political Club was organized. It met each Saturday night at Grayson’s Tavern to discuss the political, economic, and social concerns of the day. After a state constitution was adopted and distancing was avowed in 1792, the town ceased to be of statewide importance. Its leading citizens moved elsewhere.