Centerville, New Mexico

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Clayton South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88430. It lies near Fullingim Draw. The Survey maps it on the Amistad SE quadrangle.

Centerville within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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.

1954 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Amistad SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1994 and 2015, burning about 1,180 acres in total. 1 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 September 2015	Natural	600 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MILLIGAN
2 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	580 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COPELAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Centerville Corner

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Centerville Corner	2.0 miles	4
Amistad	9.0 miles	4
Hayden	15.2 miles	4
Sedan	24.0 miles	7
Miera	31.8 miles	7
Thomas	32.7 miles	7
Garcia (historical)	33.7 miles	7
Bates	34.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898530. 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.