Centreville, Illinois
27 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 62207. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle. 4,232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCentreville fell from 5,309 to 4,232 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,309 | |
| 2020 | 4,232 | -1,077 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 27 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.
- 1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
- 1934 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Centreville between 2008 and 2014, burning about 14 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SPICER |
| 19 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 89TH |
| 28 June 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MCDONALDS |
| 14 June 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I64 M10 |
| 13 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 81ST |
| 6 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GARDENS |
| 24 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | ACHALWACHS |
| 24 March 2014 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CBHALWACHS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Centreville: 4 past producers, 4 plants, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc, Refiner. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget Smelter | Copper | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| Alpha Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments | Iron | Producer | ||
| Casper Stolle Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| East St. Louis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Krause #1 Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Pepper Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stifel Quarry Number One | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centreville in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Hail | Centreville | - | Ham radio spotters reported dime-size hail in Centreville. The county sheriff reported trees and power lines down in Belleville several minutes later, followed by golf ball-size hail. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Centreville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alorton | 0.5 miles | 21 | |
| Golden Gardens | 1.1 miles | 21 | |
| Lake Siding | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Centerville Station | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Maplewood Park | 2.8 miles | 27 | |
| East Saint Louis | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| Sauget | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| Edgemont | 3.3 miles | 21 |
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 Centreville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575110 | 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 426298. 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.













