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Centerville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Centerville town. It lies near Swift Hill. The Survey maps it on the Houghton quadrangle.

Centerville within Allegany County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centerville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Centerville, surveyed 1906

On record in Centerville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 171 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Centerville between 1860 and 1974: 108 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Ball & King, Ball, G. E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium Lév., 1847Coleosporium Lév., 18471936T.B. Rundle
Specimen of Septoria convolvuli Desm.Septoria convolvuli Desm.1939M. F. BarrusSmith Bros. Farm
Specimen of Wynnea americana Thaxt.Wynnea americana Thaxt.1967G. M. SmithNear Letchworth
A photograph of the species Leucichthys Dybowski, not of this specimenLeucichthys Dybowski, 18741860C. HeacoxCaneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Acronicta tritona, not of this specimenAcronicta tritona Hübner, 18181877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Epiglaea decliva, not of this specimenEpiglaea decliva Grote, 18741877not recordedCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane amanda, not of this specimenLithophane amanda Smith, 19001877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane querquera, not of this specimenLithophane querquera Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Lithophane semiusta, not of this specimenLithophane semiusta Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane tepida, not of this specimenLithophane tepida Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Charles C. CookCenterville

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Matt Connor No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
T.J.& M.Williams WellSaltPast Producer
Unnamed Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2005Flash FloodCenterville$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCenterville$15,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodCenterville$10,000no account filed
September 2018LightningCenterville$5,000A trained spotter reported a lightning strike on a house that resulted in electrical damage to the home.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCenterville$5,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodCenterville$1,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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
Higgins2.5 miles17
Fairview4.3 miles14
Hume6.0 miles17
Rushford6.0 miles14
Houghton6.3 miles17
Balcom Beach6.9 miles17
Mills Mills7.0 miles18
Fillmore7.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969984. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.