Centreville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Centreville Historic District is a historic district in Centreville, Alabama, United States. It includes 7.5 acres (3.0 ha) and twenty buildings, including the Bibb County Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Centreville Historic District (Centreville, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Bibb County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Walnut St., East and West Court Sq., Centreville, 35042
When was it listed? October 1978
Category. district
Census division. Centreville-Brent
National Register reference number. 78000482 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Centreville Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 998 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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	39
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
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

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Centreville Historic District: 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

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centreville, the town this property stands in, 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

Every storm recorded in Bibb County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Davidson-Smitherman House	0.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bibb County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.