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Centerville, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hartshorne-Haileyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74547. It lies near Belle Starr Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hartshorne quadrangle.

Centerville within Pittsburg County

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

412 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 412 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,123 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 147 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
Arson/incendiarism147
Missing data/not specified/undetermined140
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural17
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20468
5 September 2002Smoking3.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20387
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20219
29 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20383
28 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dolese Bros Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dolese Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 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
April 2026HailCenterville$30,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
Hartshorne2.6 miles18
Haileyville3.5 miles18
Adamson4.2 miles18
Dow4.4 miles18
Craig6.1 miles17
Bache7.2 miles17
Carbon7.6 miles17
Bond8.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100282. 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.