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Centertown, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65023. The Survey maps it on the Russellville quadrangle. 284 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Centertown within Cole 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

2 figures

Centertown grew from 278 to 284 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
2010278
2020284+6 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Centertown in 2018, burning about 2 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
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
25 January 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177425-02626-01252018-1745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Centertown: 29 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
C. Weber MineBarium-Barite, ZincPast Producer1900
Reed DiggingsZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Scheplar PitBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown-ShaleClayPast Producer
Chambers Jack ProspectLeadPast Producer
Chambers Lead MineLeadPast Producer
Dunlap DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Weaver DigLeadPast Producer
Dunlap DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cole County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centertown in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around Centertown.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindCentertown-The County Sheriff reported damage to a mobile home roof due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCentertown-The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking roads in Centertown.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Storm spotters reported trees and power lines down in Centertown.
May 1997HailCentertown-County sheriff reported nickel size hail.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCentertown-Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported.
March 2021HailCentertown-no account filed
April 2019HailCentertown-no account filed
April 2011HailCentertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cole 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
Saint Martins4.3 miles20
Elston4.7 miles20
Marion5.6 miles20
Lohman5.8 miles20
Plummer6.2 miles20
Apache Flats6.4 miles20
Burlington (historical)6.8 miles20
Scott7.2 miles20

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 Q958869The 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 715664. 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.

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.