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Centerville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rayle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30660. The Survey maps it on the Rayle quadrangle.

Centerville within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 497 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-010
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WILKES001
19 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-008
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKES-013
11 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Centerville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Latimer Mine (Fairy Ridge)GoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Wilkes 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
Rayle1.4 miles12
Thaxton (historical)2.5 miles12
Callaway2.5 miles12
Linesville4.2 miles12
Celeste4.3 miles12
New Town6.0 miles12
Bessie (historical)6.0 miles12
Lina (historical)6.0 miles13

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 Q54888657The 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 355089. 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.