Centertown, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Centertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42328. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 443 feet above sea level.
On record in Centertown
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Ceralvo Masonic Hall and Schoollisted 2015
Population over time
3 figuresCentertown grew from 416 to 416 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 416 | |
| 2010 | 423 | +7 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 416 | -7 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1909 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Centertown between 2000 and 2010, burning about 352 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 | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 April 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centertown in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Centertown | $500,000 | On Shrull Lane west of Centertown, a mobile home and several outbuildings were destroyed. There was intermittent damage across extreme western Ohio County. There was structural damage to 16 homes in Hartford. Roofs were off some homes. Mobile homes were picked up and twisted. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. A few homes and vehicles were damaged by falling trees. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | $10,000 | The Centerville fire department reported that several limbs and power poles were downed by thunderstorm winds. One house was damaged. Another report detailing several downed trees came from the public. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | $10,000 | A tree toppled onto a home, damaging its roof. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | The Ohio County emergency manager reported a roof blown off a trailer. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | Law enforcement officials from Ohio County reported to the NWS that trees were down as a result of severe thunderstorm winds on Central Grove Road. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | A supercell moved across Ohio County through the town of Hartford. West of Hartford, law enforcement reported roofs off of homes and cars overturned. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | Several large trees were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Centertown | - | The spotter also reported a funnel cloud. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | Trees were blown down. |
| February 2012 | Hail | Centertown | - | no account filed |
| October 2010 | Hail | Centertown | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Centertown | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centertown | - | 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.
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 Centertown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972827 | 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 489277. 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.






