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Centerville Station, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Centreville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62206. It stands on Powdermill Creek. The Survey maps it on the French Village quadrangle.

Centerville Station within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

18 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Centerville Station between 2008 and 2014, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSPICER
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources89TH
6 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGARDENS
20 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWINSLOW
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWINSLOW
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCASEYVILLE
23 March 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPREGLER
21 March 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBHALWACHS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Centerville Station: 3 past producers, 3 plants, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper. 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
(Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget SmelterCopperPlant
Alpha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hydraulic-Press Brick Co.Clay Pit 2ClayPast Producer
Casper Stolle Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
East St. Louis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krause #1 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
T.W. Stolle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Lake Siding0.9 miles21
Westview1.5 miles21
Centreville2.0 miles27
Crest Hill2.1 miles21
Golden Gardens2.2 miles21
Alorton2.3 miles21
Briar Hill2.7 miles21
Tillman2.7 miles27

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.

Wikidata item Q122596224The 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 1736309. 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.