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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.

Centreville within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Centreville 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,309
20204,232-1,077 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

28 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
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
28 June 2008Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMCDONALDS
14 June 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI64 M10
13 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources81ST
6 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGARDENS
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesACHALWACHS
24 March 2014Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCBHALWACHS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget SmelterCopperPlant
(Facility) Sauget Zinc RefineryZinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Alpha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hypothetical Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProspectUnderground
Pfizer Inc. Mineral PigmentsIronProducer
Casper Stolle Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
East St. Louis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krause #1 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Pepper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stifel Quarry Number OneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994HailCentreville-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 2022HailCentreville-no account filed

Every storm 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
Alorton0.5 miles21
Golden Gardens1.1 miles21
Lake Siding1.4 miles21
Centerville Station2.0 miles21
Maplewood Park2.8 miles27
East Saint Louis3.2 miles27
Sauget3.3 miles27
Edgemont3.3 miles21

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 CentrevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575110The 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.