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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.

Centerville within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

13 since 2012

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County273
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresKansas Counties1077 AND DINGUS ROAD
17 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County206
13 June 2020Debris and open burning40 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service153
21 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County17036
21 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLinn County125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2006HailCenterville$25,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCenterville$5,000High winds downed power lines in Centerville.
June 2025HailCenterville-Two inch diameter hail reported between Centerville and Blue Mound.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCenterville-4 inch tree limbs blown down.
May 1997HailCenterville-The Linn County Sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in Centerville during a severe thunderstorm.
October 2014HailCenterville-no account filed
May 2009HailCenterville-no account filed
June 2008HailCenterville-no account filed
June 2008HailCenterville-no account filed
June 2008HailCenterville-no account filed
February 2007HailCenterville-no account filed
March 2006HailCenterville-no account filed
November 2005HailCenterville-no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed
May 2003HailCenterville-no account filed
July 2001HailCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Dunlay2.7 miles14
Goodrich4.6 miles14
Parker7.5 miles14
Critzer7.7 miles14
Farlinville8.5 miles15
Blue Mound9.0 miles16
Cadmus10.5 miles14
Mound City11.9 miles15

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 CentervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5060095The 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.