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Centerville, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. The Survey maps it on the Falkville quadrangle.

Centerville within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

112 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1997 and 2019, burning about 752 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-16
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140924-002
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-21
22 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-11
19 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Centerville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lacon Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2014Thunderstorm WindCenterville$5,000Trees were knocked down on County Road 1282 near Interstate 65 in West Point. Numberous power outages were reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCenterville$2,000Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down along Interstate 65 at Lacon Mountain.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCenterville$1,000A tree was knocked down blocking the roadway at the intersection of CR 1225 and CR 1233.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindCenterville$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across county road 1261.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCenterville$100Thunderstorm winds estimated to around 50 mph knocked down small tree limbs along County Road 1282 northwest of Folsom Field.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Highway 31 near the Cullman and Morgan County, Alabama line.
December 2015Heavy RainCenterville-Rainfall total as of 7:15pm observation: 10.79 inches.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Centerville-A short-lived tornado touched down nearly 4 miles northeast of West point and tracked northeast across Interstate 65 just north of the County Road 1282 overpass. The tornado snapped and uprooted trees along County Road 1282, with smaller trees damaged along County Road 1264 just west of Interstate 65. The damaged continued east of Interstate 65 along County Road 1282 where several trees were snapped and uprooted and a porch of a house was damaged.

Every storm recorded in Cullman County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Longview2.9 miles20
West Point3.0 miles17
North Vinemont3.9 miles17
Battleground4.1 miles20
Vinemont4.1 miles19
Southern Pines4.2 miles17
South Vinemont4.3 miles19
Pine Hill4.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115878. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.