Highway Department The Highway Department is here to serve Danby residents with cleared and safe roads. Laura Shawley Town Bookkeeper & Highway Secretary lshawley@danby.ny.gov 607-272-9169 Jack Shawley Deputy Highway Superintendent […]
Danby Code Enforcement The Danby Code Enforcement Office is responsible for the enforcement of local & some statewide ordinances & regulations including Building Permits & Fire Inspections Steve Cortright Call: […]
Planning & Zoning The Town Planner’s role is to work with property owners who may want or need to make an application for subdivision, site plan review, special permit, or […]
Danby Historian The Town Historian is an appointed position tasked with managing and preserving local government records, nongovernmental historical records, and otherwise adding to the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of […]
West Danby Water District The West Danby Water District is a public utility that provides safe, clean, piped water to homes and businesses in and around the hamlet of West […]
The Town of Danby sits on the traditional & ancestral land of the Gayogoho:no’ (Cayuga Nation), one of the five nations to first form the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794.