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Centerville, Minnesota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lino Lakes City. It lies in ZIP code area 55038. The Survey maps it on the Centerville quadrangle. 3,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Centerville within Anoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Centerville grew from 3,792 to 3,896 between 2010 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
20103,792
20203,896+104 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

53 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Smoking2.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anoka County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2008Tornado (EF3)Centerville$300,000The tornado touched down on the eastern side of Lino Lakes, at the eastern shore of Peltier Lake. The tornado felled trees and lifted boat docks, then tracked east and crossed Interstate 35E. As this occurred, a few barns, grain bins, and silos were damaged. The tornado then intensified as it moved into northwestern Washington County and a subdivision (Creekview Preserve), about two miles north of downtown Hugo. It was at this point (around 16:01), that the twister caused EF-3 damage. The tornado dissipated in the eastern portion of Hugo, just north of Irish Avenue and 140th Street. Seven hundred and ninety four homes, including mobile homes, were affected by the storm in some way. A total of 91 homes sustained minor structural damage, numerous broken windows, and damage to small sections of roof. Twenty seven homes were destroyed, totally collapsed, or not economically feasible to repair. A two year old boy in Washington County (see corresponding entry) died after being blown out of the first floor of his home in Creekview Preserve. A 62 year old woman in Washington County died an indirect death due to a heart attack during cleanup in Hugo a few days later. Some important information provided by the Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, and other local newspapers.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A tree was snapped in half near Centerville.
June 2017HailCenterville-Report submitted via social media.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCenterville-About two dozen trees were toppled due to a rear flank downburst associated with the storm that produced the Forest Lake tornado. The trees were in a rural area as observed by a broadcast meteorologist during a flight over the area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A few trees were blown down near Centerville Road and County Road 14 in Centerville, Minnesota.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Several six inch diameter tree branches were blown down near Lino Lakes, Minnesota.
May 2008HailCenterville-At Interstate 35E and County Road 14.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Numerous trees down, some across roads or on houses. A radio tower, of unknown type, toppled.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A few trees and power lines were downed near Centerville Road and Main Street.
June 2017HailCenterville-no account filed
June 2017HailCenterville-no account filed
May 2013HailCenterville-no account filed
August 2007HailCenterville-no account filed
September 1999HailCenterville-no account filed
August 1995Tornado (F0)Centerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anoka 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
Lino Lakes1.8 miles19
Circle Pines5.2 miles19
Lexington5.9 miles19
Columbus7.1 miles14
Blaine9.5 miles19
Johnsville9.8 miles19
Spring Lake Park10.4 miles22
Lake Netta10.8 miles13

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 Q1004367The 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 641053. 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.