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.
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
Centreville Historic Districtlisted 1978
Davidson-Smitherman Houselisted 1988
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Bibb County Courthouse & Jail, Courthouse Square, Centrevillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Southern Ductile Casting Company, Centerville Foundry, 101 Airport Road, Centrevillefederal building survey, 15 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresCentreville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 239 | |
| 2010 | 2,778 | |
| 2020 | 2,800 | +22 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Centreville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Centreville West quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
145 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 3842 SELMA ROAD - CENTREVILLE, AL |
| 7 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 16 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry Service Pit | Kaolin | Producer | ||
| USGS MR-60 Alabama No.8 Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Unknown |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centreville | $50,000 | Quarter-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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centreville | $15,000 | A few large trees were down in the Centerville area and a grocery store in Brent had its roof damaged. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centreville | $10,000 | A roof was damaged on a house on SR 25, northeast of Centreville. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Centreville | $5,000 | Larger than quarter sized hail was reported in Eoline. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Centreville | $5,000 | Hail the size of quarters was reported in Centreville. |
| January 1997 | Hail | Centreville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centreville | $200 | Power lines were downed in western sections of Bibb County along with at least one power pole in Centreville. |
| December 2005 | Hail | Centreville | - | Dime to penny size hail was observed in Centreville. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Centreville | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Centreville. |
| February 1995 | Hail | Centreville | - | One-inch hail was reported at the Six Mile community along Alabama 25 about nine miles northeast of Centreville. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Centreville | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Centreville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Centreville | 0.2 miles | 11 | |
| West Centreville | 0.2 miles | 11 | |
| East Town | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Zulu | 0.8 miles | 11 | |
| Fairdale | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Brent | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Jamesville | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Vick | 2.9 miles | 11 |
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 Centreville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79253 | The 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.






