Centerville, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Centerville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66014. It stands on South Fork Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centerville quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 1,273 acres 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 273 |
| 21 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Kansas Counties | 1077 AND DINGUS ROAD |
| 17 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 206 |
| 13 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 153 |
| 21 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 17036 |
| 21 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Linn County | 125 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Hail | Centerville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centerville | $5,000 | High winds downed power lines in Centerville. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Centerville | - | Two inch diameter hail reported between Centerville and Blue Mound. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centerville | - | 4 inch tree limbs blown down. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Centerville | - | The Linn County Sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in Centerville during a severe thunderstorm. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Centerville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Centerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunlay | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Goodrich | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Parker | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Critzer | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Farlinville | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Blue Mound | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cadmus | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mound City | 11.9 miles | 15 |
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 Centerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5060095 | 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 477898. 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.
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.








