It crosses the municipalities of Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Saint-Claude and Danville in the Les Sources Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, in Canada.

The main neighboring hydrographic slopes of the Danville River are: The Danville river has its source at the Lévesque dam in the municipality of Saint-Georges-de-Windsor.

This dam retains a body of water 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) in length forming a loop to the south.

This body of water is fed by the Jean stream (coming from the north).

Its confluence is located at: The toponym rivière Danville was made official on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.