Centerville, Illinois

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.

• 1912 USGS Gillespie quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Gillespie quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Centerville in 2009, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Baylestown
• Bunker Hill
• Dorchester
• Hornsby
• Lake Ka-Ho
• Sawyerville

Every fire recorded in Macoupin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422536. 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.