BlockCentennial, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75639. The Survey maps it on the Old Panola quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1945 USGS Socagee Bayou quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1983 USGS Old Panola quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Centennial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 518 |
| 6 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 481 |
| 3 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 209 |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Natural | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 119 |
| 28 September 2013 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6351 |
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2011 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 571 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikipedia article on Centennial | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q29094867 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1889882. 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.