Places
- Canada
- Danforth's Road (1801), Asa Danforth Jr.'s early colonial road from eastern Toronto to the Trent River
- An extension of this road eastward to the Bay of Quinte (1802) leads through towns now served by Ontario Highway 33
- A Danforth Road still exists locally in Scarborough, Ontario; the main Danforth Avenue was built to connect this road to Toronto's downtown.
- Danforth Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Toronto, and hence:
- Greektown, Toronto, or "The Danforth", a neighborhood with a large Greek community
- Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute, a technical school
- Bloor–Danforth line, a subway line
- Danforth GO Station, a station on the GO Transit commuter rail system
- Toronto—Danforth, a federal and provincial electoral district
- Danforth (electoral district), an abolished electoral district
- United States
- Danforth Avenue (HBLR station), light rail station Hudson County
- Danforth, Illinois, a village in Iroquois County
- Danforth, Maine, a town in Washington County
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a not-for-profit research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri
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