Centralia, Missouri

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 2 records

• Albert Bishop Chance House and Gardenslisted 1979
• Chatollisted 1979

Centralia grew from 4,027 to 4,541 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.

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.

• 1890 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1945 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Centralia Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centralia in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Boone County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 715695. 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.

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.