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Danville is an incorporated town in Contra Costa County that calls itself the "Heart of the San Ramon Valley" and sits at the base of 3,849-foot Mount Diablo.

Danville was originally part of Rancho San Ramón, a Mexican land grant made in 1834 to José María Amador.

Danville's first settlers of the town era, brothers Daniel and Andrew Inman, bought 400 acres in 1854 with money earned in the Gold Rush, and the town's post office opened in 1860.

Danville began as a farming community that switched from wheat to fruits and nuts after the Southern Pacific Railroad built a spur line through the valley in 1891.

Danville did not incorporate until July 1, 1982, and it is one of the few California municipalities that officially use "town" instead of "city."

Danville had a population of 43,582 at the 2020 census.

Danville had 15,630 households in the 2020 census, with an average household size of 2.78 people and a high 84.6% of occupied homes owner-occupied.

Danville is home to the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, centered on Tao House, where Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill lived from 1937 to 1944 and wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, calling it "my final home and harbor."

The Museum of the San Ramon Valley is housed in Danville's restored 1891 Southern Pacific railroad depot.

Danville's Village Theatre, built in 1873, is one of the town's surviving 19th-century landmarks.