Centerville, Montana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clark Canyon-Horse Prairie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59725. It lies near Hangmans Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Bannack quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Centerville within Beaverhead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1893 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Bannack quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Bannack quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Centerville (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	BANNACK
1 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead County	BLUE DOT MINE
1 August 2020	Natural	188 acres	Central Land Office	BON ACCORD
27 July 2017	Natural	3.5 acres	Dillon Field Office	MAGPIE
23 July 2019	Natural	151 acres	Dillon Field Office	BANNACK
23 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
11 July 1994	Natural	250 acres	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	BADGER PASS
27 June 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Dillon Field Office	COLD CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaverhead County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Centerville (historical): 46 past producers, 21 occurrences, 11 prospects, 5 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bannack District	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1862
Blue Wing	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Blue Wing District	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Manganese	Past Producer	1864
Charter Oak Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	1865
Charter Oak Mine	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Cottontail Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer	1865
Del Monte Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	1865
Del Monte Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Excelsior Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Bismuth, Manganese, Tellurium	Past Producer	1902
Excelsior Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Beaverhead 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yankee Flat (historical)	0.9 miles	19
Bannack	1.0 miles	19
Frenchie Place	6.0 miles	16
Ermont Mill	8.4 miles	18
Argenta	10.6 miles	19
Grant	11.2 miles	11
Grayling	11.2 miles	16
Dalys	11.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1797091. 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.