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Centreville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35042. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centreville West quadrangle. 2,800 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Centreville within Bibb County

On record in Centreville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Centreville grew from 239 to 2,800 between 1890 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1890239
20102,778
20202,800+22 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Centerville Foundry, 101 Airport Road, Centreville, Bibb County, AL
Southern Ductile Casting Company, Centerville Foundry, 101 Airport Road, Centreville, Bibb County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Bibb County Courthouse & Jail, Courthouse Square, Centreville, Bibb County, AL
Bibb County Courthouse & Jail, Courthouse Square, Centreville, Bibb County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Centreville between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,106 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 31 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission3842 SELMA ROAD - CENTREVILLE, AL
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Centreville: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Forestry Service PitKaolinProducer
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.8 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centreville in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCentreville$50,000Quarter-size hail was reported at Brent. The roof was blown off a barn near the intersection of County Road 1 and U.S. 82.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCentreville$15,000A few large trees were down in the Centerville area and a grocery store in Brent had its roof damaged.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCentreville$10,000A roof was damaged on a house on SR 25, northeast of Centreville.
May 1998HailCentreville$5,000Larger than quarter sized hail was reported in Eoline.
April 1998HailCentreville$5,000Hail the size of quarters was reported in Centreville.
January 1997HailCentreville$5,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCentreville$200Power lines were downed in western sections of Bibb County along with at least one power pole in Centreville.
December 2005HailCentreville-Dime to penny size hail was observed in Centreville.
March 1998HailCentreville-Nickel size hail was reported in Centreville.
February 1995HailCentreville-One-inch hail was reported at the Six Mile community along Alabama 25 about nine miles northeast of Centreville.
May 1995HailCentreville-Quarter-size hail was reported. A wind gust to 58 miles an hour was recorded at the National Weather Service Office located five miles southwest of Brent.
April 2007HailCentreville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
East Centreville0.2 miles11
West Centreville0.2 miles11
East Town0.4 miles11
Zulu0.8 miles11
Fairdale1.0 miles11
Brent1.5 miles11
Jamesville2.9 miles11
Vick2.9 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CentrevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79253The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159359. 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.