Danis Sports Bar

Danis Sports Bar is listed at 369 East State Road 44 in Wildwood, classified in local business directories under both general bars and sports bars specifically. As with a handful of other State Road 44 addresses checked during this research pass, the US Census Bureau’s geocoder was unable to return a confirmed address match for this location, which appears to be a gap in the underlying Census address range data for this section of road rather than a sign that Danis Sports Bar does not have a real, fixed address. Several other businesses on this same road, checked with slightly different address formatting, produced the same no-match result, including one address associated with a well-known national restaurant chain, which points toward a systemic data coverage issue for this corridor rather than a problem specific to Danis Sports Bar.

Wildwood, Florida is the Sumter County seat and sits where Interstate 75, Florida’s Turnpike, State Road 44 and US Route 301 come together, a crossing point that gave the city its Crossroads of Florida nickname. The city has grown quickly over the past decade, from 6,709 residents in 2010 to 15,730 by the 2020 census, driven in large part by the expansion of the neighboring Villages retirement community. That growth supports a food and drink scene that ranges from small, family-run kitchens downtown to newer restaurants along the Highway 301 and Seven Mile Drive commercial corridors.

A sports bar on State Road 44 sits along one of Wildwood’s main east-west routes through town, connecting the downtown Main Street area to the rest of Sumter County, and it shares its 34785 zip code with numerous other businesses that were independently confirmed to sit inside Wildwood’s city limits. That is a reasonable, though not conclusive, indicator that Danis Sports Bar also falls within the incorporated city rather than the surrounding unincorporated county, but it stops short of the direct confirmation available for the addresses that did successfully match against the Census Bureau’s Incorporated Places data.

No hours, price range, website, or founding year were available through the sources checked for this listing. Anyone using this listing for a directory or visitor guide should call 352-399-2973 to confirm both that the bar is currently operating and that the address is accurate, and should treat the Wildwood city-limit status as provisional pending a manual check, such as against Sumter County property records or a current mapping service, rather than as independently confirmed the way most of the other businesses in this batch were.