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Centerville, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Matthews Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72058. The Survey maps it on the Guy quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Centerville within Faulkner County

On record in Centerville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

73 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 800 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Natural22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner 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 Centerville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
Unk Shale Pits 3ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2005: 2 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
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
McGintytown2.6 miles11
Barney3.0 miles10
Rowlett (historical)3.8 miles12
Old Texas3.9 miles12
Enders4.0 miles10
Guy5.5 miles12
Soda Valley5.6 miles12
Enola6.1 miles10

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 CentervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5060081The 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 56956. 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.