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New 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 stands on Trail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Placerville quadrangle.

New 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of New Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,531 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 6 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
Natural85
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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
8 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestOPHIR CREEK
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreBoise National ForestOLD HAHN
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWS 018 AIRPORT
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWS 020 WILLOW
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 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of New Centerville: 19 past producers, 9 occurrences, 5 producers, 5 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, Gold, Thorium. 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
Bummer Mill DiggingsGold, REE, MolybdenumUnknown
Clear Creek Mine No.1Lead, AntimonyOccurrence
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
FridayZirconium, Gold, REE, IronOccurrencePlacer
Gold BeltGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Granger GroupGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Centerville in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
April 2023FloodNew Centerville-Bridge damaged on Centerville Road at milepost 4.5 from snowmelt flooding.

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
Centerville2.4 miles20
Star Ranch Summer Home Area3.8 miles20
Placerville4.7 miles20
Granite5.1 miles20
Idaho City5.4 miles19
Quartzburg6.9 miles20
Pioneerville6.9 miles19
Washington Mill8.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 387533. 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.