Century, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Century census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32535. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Century quadrangle. 1,713 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Century within Escambia County

Then and now

1941 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Century, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Century, surveyed 1941

On record in Century

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

Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic Districtlisted 1989

Population over time

2 figures

Century grew from 1,698 to 1,713 between 2010 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
2010	1,698
2020	1,713	+15 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1941 USGS Century quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Century quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Century quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Century between 1992 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 40 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	66
Railroad operations and maintenance	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Arson/incendiarism	40
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Natural	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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	71 VIVAL PATHE LANE, AL
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	JETER LANE (17)
26 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	53 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Century: 8 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jay	Petroleum (Oil), Sulfur	Unknown
Mixon Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Esc 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Wiggins W H Prospect	Clay	Occurrence
Campbell Sand and Gravel - Century Mine	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Bluff Springs Mine	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #1	Sand	Unknown
Pace Sand and Gravel - Century Pit #2	Sand	Unknown
Red Sand and Gravel - Sunday Road Mine	Sand	Producer
Bluff Springs Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Century in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$40,000	High winds from a thunderstorm caused minor damage to eight homes west of Century. Most of the damage was to roofs and out buildings.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$40,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines in Century.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$12,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Century. Wind speeds were estimated at around 70 MPH.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$10,000	Tree and roof damage along with outbuilding damage on Hwy 4 just west of Century.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Century.
January 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$5,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph destroyed a metal barn on Highway 4A.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Century	$5,000	The weak tornado that developed in Santa Rosa county, west of Munson, moved into Escambia county from the southeast. The weak tornado dissipated near Century. The tornado blew down several trees and power lines just southeast of Century.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Century	$500	Several trees and power lines were blown down just north of Century.
October 2004	Funnel Cloud	Century	-	Local Emergency Management personnel, while looking at wind damage that had occurred earlier in the day, observed a funnel cloud for several minutes. The funnel cloud never touched down and went back into the cloud.
May 2023	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Century	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Century	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Happy Valley	1.0 miles	15
South Flomaton	1.3 miles	12
Oyster Lodge	1.6 miles	15
Gandyville	2.1 miles	12
Bluff Springs	3.0 miles	12
Byrneville	3.4 miles	12
McDavid	8.0 miles	15
Bratt	8.7 miles	12

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 Century	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932750	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 280274. 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.