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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.

Centertown within Ohio County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Centertown 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.

YearPeople Change
2000416
2010423+7 (+2%)
2020416-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

21 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Arson/incendiarism60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Tornado (F1)Centertown$500,000On 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 2008Thunderstorm WindCentertown$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. A few homes and vehicles were damaged by falling trees.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCentertown$10,000The 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCentertown$10,000A tree toppled onto a home, damaging its roof.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCentertown-The Ohio County emergency manager reported a roof blown off a trailer.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindCentertown-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 2012Thunderstorm WindCentertown-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 2006Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Several large trees were blown down.
April 2006HailCentertown-The spotter also reported a funnel cloud.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Trees were downed.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Trees were blown down.
February 2012HailCentertown-no account filed
October 2010HailCentertown-no account filed
March 2009HailCentertown-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCentertown-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCentertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Equality4.0 miles13
Matanzas4.0 miles13
Ceralvo4.1 miles15
McHenry4.6 miles11
No Creek4.8 miles11
Simmons5.0 miles12
Hartford5.2 miles11
Ken Wye5.4 miles12

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 CentertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972827The 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.