Live in Lake Daniel
A postwar neighborhood of small brick and frame houses and courtyard apartments across the street from Grimsley High, on the state's Study List for the National Register but in no historic district, so nothing beyond zoning governs what an owner changes.
Lake Daniel is the City of Greensboro's name for 85 acres north of Benjamin Parkway and east of North Josephine Boyd Street, where 585 residents lived in 380 housing units at the 2020 census. Garland Daniel platted Lake Daniel in 1926 around a small man-made lake, now a city reservoir, and a park along North Buffalo Creek, but most of the building waited for the end of the war: of the 257 properties the state's 2009 survey recorded in its wider Lake Daniel, 88% date from 1940 to 1970. Grimsley High School is 0.15 km from the reference point and UNC Greensboro's campus about 1 km south. The state placed a Lake Daniel Historic District on its Study List in 2009, but no National Register or City historic district on the City's layers covers any of it, and no sale price for the area is published.
Platted in 1926, built after the war, and listed nowhere
The line is one area of the City's estimated neighborhood map: a hosted layer the City published for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, on which Lake Daniel (object 13) is marked VERIFIED NO, clipped to the City limits, which take nothing from it. It is not an association's territory, a historic district or a plat. On the City's street centerlines it follows Benjamin Parkway along the south, North Josephine Boyd Street on the west and Seminole Drive on the east, with Pamlico, Twyckenham and Garland drives, Cardinal, Whilden and Desoto places and more of Seminole Drive inside. The state's 2009 survey drew its Lake Daniel wider, from Westover Terrace, now Josephine Boyd Street, east to Battleground Avenue and north to Wendover Avenue.
Lake Daniel here is a line the City of Greensboro draws: one area of its estimated neighborhood map, held on a layer the City published for its traffic-calming program and marked VERIFIED NO, clipped to the City limits, which take nothing from it. It is not an association's territory or a plat, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Lake Daniel ends. The line runs along Benjamin Parkway on the south, North Josephine Boyd Street on the west and Seminole Drive on the east, and it held 585 residents in 380 housing units on 85 acres at the 2020 census. The state's 2009 survey drew a wider Lake Daniel, east to Battleground Avenue and north to Wendover Avenue; the City's line is its western part.
The plan came early and the houses late. Garland Daniel platted Lake Daniel in 1926 and sold it as "Close to the Heart of Nature and to Greensboro": winding roads, tennis courts, a park along North Buffalo Creek and a small man-made lake that now serves as a city reservoir, its valve house of about 1920 still standing on Benjamin Parkway. The brochure promised the "Million Dollar High School" that opened across Westover Terrace in 1929. But a few houses went up around 1930, and the rest waited for the end of the Second World War. Of the 257 properties the survey recorded, only 23 predate 1940 and 227, or 88%, date from 1940 to 1970: one-story Minimal Traditional houses in brick or weatherboard, then brick Ranches.
Apartments are part of the original pattern. The survey calls the density of multi-unit building unique among Greensboro's mid-century neighborhoods: the Whilden Place condominiums of 1949 at the north end of Pamlico Drive, then duplexes and two-story apartment buildings along Whilden Place. The blocks average only 1.54 residents a housing unit. In June 2009 the state put a Lake Daniel Historic District on its Study List, but a Study List entry is not a listing, and no National Register or City historic district on the City's layers covers any of the line. An owner needs no certificate of appropriateness to change a house, and neither does a neighbor; zoning was not read.
Grimsley is the neighbor. Grimsley High School, about 1,929 students in 2023-24, is 0.15 km from the reference point across Josephine Boyd Street, named since 2019 for the student who desegregated the school in 1957. UNC Greensboro's campus is about 1 km south, but census tract 105, which holds all of Lake Daniel, counted only 4.9% of its residents aged three and over in college in the 2020 to 2024 survey, 101 of 2,049 with margins of 34 and 45. Route 8 stops 0.13 km away every 30 minutes at weekday midday.
What a house costs is not published. Zillow's typical value for ZIP 27408, which holds all of Lake Daniel, was $346,268 in August 2026, up 0.8%: a ZIP-wide figure, not this guide's. Every parcel pays Guilford County's 78.95 cents and the City's 79.85 cents per $100, 158.80 in all for fiscal 2027, on the 2022 revaluation's values because Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 values off to the 2027 bills. A house assessed at $250,000 owes about $3,970. Your first bill follows the seller's assessment and the next revaluation will change it; North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer. Stormwater and solid waste come on the City's water bill, read here only secondhand. On the City's flood layer 2.2% of the area is in the special flood hazard area, with 24 residents on blocks there; the reference point is in zone X on panels effective 10 June 2026.
- Look the address up on FEMA's flood map or the state's Flood Risk Information System: 2.2% of the area is in the special flood hazard area
- Budget for change: 158.80 cents applies to the 2022 value for 2026 only, and the 2027 bill uses the 2026 value at a rate not yet set
- Check whether the house is a single-family lot or part of the Whilden Place condominiums, and ask for any association's dues
- Check the parcel's zoning with the City before planning an addition; this guide did not read it
- Expect school traffic on Josephine Boyd Street: Grimsley High is across the street
- Confirm the schools with the district's 2026-27 locator, and where Lindley Elementary is meeting
How Lake Daniel got here
- 1891Maps show a handful of large estates spreading northwest from Guilford and Mendenhall streets toward Westover Terrace, and the area's first plat, The Highlands. Early attempts to develop it largely fail.
- 1920About this year a small stuccoed valve house with arches and rope columns is built for the Lake Daniel Reservoir at 520 Benjamin Parkway. The 2009 survey calls it the only non-residential building in its Lake Daniel.
- 1923Westerwood, West Market Terrace and the land that becomes Lake Daniel are taken into the city limits. All 585 residents of 2020 live on land annexed that year.
- 1926Garland Daniel plats Lake Daniel, at first also called Lake Daniel Park. A brochure sells it as "Close to the Heart of Nature and to Greensboro", with winding roads, tennis courts, a small man-made lake and a park along North Buffalo Creek.
- 1929Greensboro High School, the "Million Dollar High School" of the brochure, opens on Westover Terrace across from the neighborhood.
- 1930The first notable houses go up: a Colonial Revival house on Garland Drive and a flagstone Tudor Revival cottage on Seminole Drive in 1930, and a Tudor Revival house on Twyckenham Drive in 1931. Most of the area stays unbuilt until after the Second World War.
- 1949The Whilden Place condominiums, one-story brick buildings with gable dormers, are built at the north end of Pamlico Drive; duplexes and two-story apartment buildings follow along Whilden Place.
- 1957Josephine Boyd enters the all-white Greensboro High School, the first Black student to desegregate it. The school is renamed Grimsley High School in 1962 and listed on the National Register in 2005.
- 2009A state survey records 257 properties in Lake Daniel, 227 of them built from 1940 to 1970, and in June the Lake Daniel Historic District is placed on the State Study List under the architecture criterion. No listing has followed on the City's layers.
- 2018The City Council votes to rename Aycock Street and part of Westover Terrace for Josephine Boyd, from 2 January. The street is now the western edge of the City's Lake Daniel line.
- 2026New flood maps take effect on 10 June. In July the City's traffic-calming account publishes the neighborhood layer whose Lake Daniel polygon this guide uses, marked VERIFIED NO.
The lake is a reservoir, and the park is across the parkway
The name's lake is the small man-made reservoir in Lake Daniel Reservoir Park at 520 Benjamin Parkway; about 40% of the park's mapped outline is inside the City's line. Lake Daniel Park itself, about 80 acres along North Buffalo Creek, lies just south of the line across Benjamin Parkway, 0.2 km from the reference point, with a playground, three tennis courts, a basketball court and a stretch of the greenway.
What the map does not show: the creek that makes Lake Daniel Park is the same one that puts part of this area in the special flood hazard area.
Elsewhere in Greensboro, not Lake Daniel
24 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 24 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from the OpenStreetMap Lake Daniel place node, inside the City's line, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times. Bus distances are to the nearest stop on each route.
Every gym within reach
There is no gym or City recreation center inside the line. The nearest gym is the YMCA of Greensboro's Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA at 501 West Market Street, and the nearest City pool is the indoor Greensboro Aquatic Center on West Gate City Boulevard. Pool seasons and center hours were not read.
- Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA, 501 West Market Street: the nearest gym
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard: the City's indoor pool
- Lindley Recreation Center, 2907 Springwood Drive: beside the outdoor Lindley Pool
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA open | The YMCA of Greensboro's downtown branch at 501 West Market Street, the nearest of its Greensboro branches. Facilities and hours were not read. | 5–8 min |
| Greensboro Aquatic Center open | The City's indoor pool at 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, the nearest City pool to Lake Daniel. Hours and fees were not read. | 6–10 min |
| Warnersville Recreation Center open | The City recreation center at 601 Doak Street, beside the outdoor pool in Warnersville Community Park. The City's layer says to call for hours. | 6–10 min |
| Lindley Recreation Center open | 2907 Springwood Drive in Lindley Park, beside the City's outdoor Lindley Pool. The City's layer says to call for hours; the pool season was not read. | 7–11 min |
The free option is Lake Daniel Park across Benjamin Parkway: the greenway, three tennis courts and a basketball court.
The high school is across the street
Guilford County Schools assigns by the attendance zone of the parent's home. On its 2026-27 layers the point is zoned for Lindley Elementary, which is meeting at Murphey Elementary on Ontario Street, Kiser Middle on Campus Drive, 0.7 km north, and Grimsley High, and so are all 585 residents of 2020. Lindley and Kiser earned C on the state's report cards in 2024-25 and 2023-24, Grimsley B; no school-level 2025-26 file was found.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Grimsley High School | Guilford County Schools | The point and all 585 residents of 2020 are in the Grimsley zone on the district's 2026-27 layer. The school is 0.15 km from the reference point across North Josephine Boyd Street. NC School Report Card grade B in 2024-25 and 2023-24, with growth exceeded in 2024-25. |
| Kiser Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The point and every 2020 resident are in the Kiser zone, 407 Campus Drive, about 0.7 km north in a straight line. C in 2024-25 and 2023-24, with growth not met in 2024-25. |
| Lindley Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The point and every 2020 resident are in the Lindley zone. The school is meeting at Murphey Elementary, 2306 Ontario Street, about 2 km southwest, while its own building on Camden Road is out of use; the reason was not read. C in 2024-25 and 2023-24. |
| General Greene Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The nearest magnet elementary on the district's site layer, General Greene Science and Technology, about 2.9 km north: filled by application, mostly by lottery. B in 2024-25. |
Run the exact address through the district's School Assignment Locator. Magnet programs, such as science and technology at General Greene Elementary about 2.9 km north, are applied for in the fall, and most seats are filled by lottery.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 9.6 °C and lows just below freezing at Piedmont Triad International, with 19.5 nights at or below 0 °C
- 2.9 inches of snow on the 1991 to 2020 normal, the snowiest month of the year
- The Curb Market on Yanceyville Street keeps its Saturday morning hours through the winter
- Highs near 11.8 °C and 15.1 frost nights on the normal, with 2 inches of snow
- A 1940s brick house shows its heating bill now: ask for a year of statements
- The County's 2026 values go on the 2027 bills, so a seller's 2026 bill is on the 2022 revaluation
- Highs near 16.3 °C and 94 mm of rain on the normal
- Spring rain fills North Buffalo Creek beside Benjamin Parkway; 2.2% of the area is in the special flood hazard area, so look the address up
- Buyers start touring; Lake Daniel has 380 housing units
- Highs near 21.7 °C and the last frost, 1.1 nights on the normal
- The EF2 tornado of 15 April 2018 touched down in east Greensboro, about 6 km southeast of this point, and ran north out of the city
- The Curb Market adds its Tuesday evening market, 4 to 7 p.m., from April
- Highs near 25.6 °C, and the first day of 32 °C or more on the normal
- Grimsley's spring term draws to a close across Josephine Boyd Street
- No frost on the normal from May to September
- Highs near 29.6 °C and 104 mm of rain, much of it in thunderstorms
- 6.6 days at 32 °C or above on the normal
- The City's nearest pool is the indoor Greensboro Aquatic Center; the outdoor pools' season was not read
- The hottest month: highs near 31.4 °C and 13.7 days at 32 °C or more
- Fun Fourth fills Elm Street downtown on 4 July, with the Freedom Run at 7:30 a.m. and the Freedom Fest from 1 to 6 p.m.
- Afternoon storms bring 106 mm of rain on the normal
- Highs near 30.3 °C and 111 mm of rain
- The 2026 bills are on the 2022 values; Guilford County and Greensboro take 1% off a bill paid before 1 September
- 9.1 days at 32 °C or more on the normal
- The wettest month on the airport's normal, 117 mm
- The North Carolina Folk Festival fills downtown for three free days; it ran 18 to 20 September in 2026 and 2027 dates are not posted
- The 1% early-payment discount ends on 1 September
- Highs near 21.7 °C and the driest month, 79 mm
- No frost yet: 0.5 nights at or below 0 °C on the normal
- The Curb Market's Tuesday evening market runs through October, its last month
- Highs near 15.9 °C and 7.7 frost nights on the normal
- Leaves come down over the 1940s streets; check gutters and the slope of the yard toward the creek
- Saturday mornings continue at the Curb Market after the Tuesday market ends
- Highs near 11.1 °C and 16.6 frost nights on the normal
- The Festival of Lights opens the season downtown on a Friday evening early in the month; the 2026 date was not posted
- 1.2 inches of snow on the December normal
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