Center City, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mullin-Priddy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76844. It stands on North Bennett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Center City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1887 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Center City quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Star quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Center City between 2005 and 2011, burning about 1,875 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W. HEAD ESTATE |
| 5 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,701 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTER CITY FIRE |
| 20 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEONARD |
| 12 August 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOPTON-JONES |
| 28 December 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 January 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 January 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center City in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Center City | $10,000 | Baseball sized hail was reported west of Center City. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Center City | $7,000 | A social media image indicated golf ball sized hail in eastern Mills County. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Center City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Center City | - | Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail approximately 11 miles east of the city of Goldthwaite. |
| October 2009 | Hail | Center City | - | Quarter size hail fell 9 miles east-northeast of Goldthwaite. |
| January 1995 | Hail | Center City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Star | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Caradan | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Goldthwaite | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Castor | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Durenville | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Scallorn | 10.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bozar | 10.5 miles | 16 |
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 Center City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q117375944 | 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 1354189. 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.
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.





