Centerville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Talbotton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31827. The Survey maps it on the Baldwinville quadrangle.

Centerville within Talbot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Baldwinville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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	72
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TALBOT-003
28 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT008
17 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TALBOT-005
16 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT003
13 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot 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
Po Biddy Crossroads	0.9 miles	8
Baldwinville	3.1 miles	8
Poplar Crossroads	3.1 miles	8
Ypsilanti	4.0 miles	8
Talbotton	4.6 miles	16
Prattsburg	5.3 miles	8
Beall	6.0 miles	16
Paschal (historical)	6.0 miles	8

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 Centerville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888656	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 355088. 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.