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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.

Centerville within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

135 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural81
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN FIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWEDE CREEK
8 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestOPHIR CREEK
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWS 020 WILLOW
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSWEDE CREEK
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestTOWN CREEK
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN CREEK 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boise Basin RegionGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Buckskin Group ProspectGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, VanadiumOccurrenceBismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Buckskin MineLead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, ZincOccurrence
Buckskin MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Bummer Mill DiggingsGold, REE, MolybdenumUnknown
Canyon Creek ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Crackerjack and Old BostonGold, REE, Zirconium, SilverPast Producer
Fall CreekGold, Silver, Thorium, Uranium, ZirconiumPast Producer
Fifty-One Placer GroupIron, Gold, Thorium, ZirconiumProducerPlacer
Fisher and Baumhoff PlacersSilver, GoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2024Heavy RainCenterville-The mesonet station, TCFI1, at Town Creek RAWS measured 1.11 inches of rain.
April 2023FloodNew Centerville-Bridge damaged on Centerville Road at milepost 4.5 from snowmelt flooding.
April 2010HailCenterville-Trained spotters near Centerville reported hail from .88 inches to 1.75 inches.

Every storm recorded in Boise 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
New Centerville2.4 miles20
Placerville3.6 miles20
Star Ranch Summer Home Area4.0 miles20
Granite4.4 miles20
Pioneerville4.6 miles19
Quartzburg6.1 miles20
Idaho City6.6 miles19
Washington Mill7.2 miles19

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 Q19600687The 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.