Centerville, Idaho
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Idaho City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83631. It lies near Slaughterhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Placerville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Idaho Basin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1894 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
135 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 81 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Boise National Forest | TOWN FIRE |
| 9 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SWEDE CREEK |
| 8 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | OPHIR CREEK |
| 7 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | OPHIR CREEK |
| 6 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SWS 020 WILLOW |
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | SWEDE CREEK |
| 6 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Boise National Forest | TOWN CREEK |
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Boise National Forest | TOWN CREEK 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 51 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 25 past producers, 13 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Iron, Gold, Thorium, Zirconium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boise Basin Region | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Buckskin Group Prospect | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Vanadium | Occurrence | Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite | |
| Buckskin Mine | Lead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Buckskin Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Bummer Mill Diggings | Gold, REE, Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| Canyon Creek Prospect | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Crackerjack and Old Boston | Gold, REE, Zirconium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Fall Creek | Gold, Silver, Thorium, Uranium, Zirconium | Past Producer | ||
| Fifty-One Placer Group | Iron, Gold, Thorium, Zirconium | Producer | Placer | |
| Fisher and Baumhoff Placers | Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Placer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Centerville | - | The mesonet station, TCFI1, at Town Creek RAWS measured 1.11 inches of rain. |
| April 2023 | Flood | New Centerville | - | Bridge damaged on Centerville Road at milepost 4.5 from snowmelt flooding. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Centerville | - | Trained spotters near Centerville reported hail from .88 inches to 1.75 inches. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Centerville | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Placerville | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Star Ranch Summer Home Area | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Granite | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Pioneerville | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Quartzburg | 6.1 miles | 20 | |
| Idaho City | 6.6 miles | 19 | |
| Washington Mill | 7.2 miles | 19 |
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 Q19600687 | 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 396264. 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.








