Centerville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in De Roan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71801. The Survey maps it on the Emmet quadrangle. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Centerville within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1901 USGS Gurdon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Emmet quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

62 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1997 and 2019, burning about 519 acres in total. 3 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 burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
23 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	No Name	Clay	Past Producer
	No Name	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 2009	Flash Flood	Centerville	$5,000	Several county roads were flooded and closed. Culverts were washed out on Hempstead County roads 56 and 166. Major debris removal was necessary after flood water came down on HCR 256, 41, 38, 39 and 52.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Centerville	-	Several trees were blown down by damaging thunderstorm wind gusts along Hwy. 278 near the Hempstead, Nevada County border.
July 1994	Hail	Centerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shover Springs	2.6 miles	15
Rocky Mound	2.7 miles	15
Gunter Addition	3.7 miles	15
Hills of Hope	4.2 miles	15
Perrytown	4.4 miles	15
Holcomb Addition	4.5 miles	15
Green Acres	4.6 miles	15
Eastridge Addition	4.7 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q5060093

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 56955. 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.