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Centerville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lexington-Fayette Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40509. The Survey maps it on the Ford quadrangle.

Centerville within Fayette County

On record in Centerville

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Richmond Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Smitha VeinFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCenterville$100,000Half of the metal roof blew off at Sayre Athletic Complex.
April 2017HailCenterville-no account filed
April 2017HailCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Nihizertown0.7 miles15
Pricetown1.1 miles15
Chilesburg1.9 miles11
Athens2.1 miles15
Walnut Hill2.6 miles16
Brighton3.9 miles16
Columbus4.0 miles11
Cadentown4.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 489278. 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.

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.