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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.

Center City within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2005

Regional 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 ceremony3
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
24 September 2011Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW. HEAD ESTATE
5 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1,701 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTER CITY FIRE
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEONARD
12 August 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPTON-JONES
28 December 2005Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 January 2008Recreation and ceremony40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 January 2008Recreation and ceremony80 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailCenter City$10,000Baseball sized hail was reported west of Center City.
April 2024HailCenter City$7,000A social media image indicated golf ball sized hail in eastern Mills County.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindCenter City$2,000no account filed
March 2017HailCenter City-Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail approximately 11 miles east of the city of Goldthwaite.
October 2009HailCenter City-Quarter size hail fell 9 miles east-northeast of Goldthwaite.
January 1995HailCenter City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mills 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
Star4.9 miles13
Pleasant Grove6.8 miles12
Caradan6.8 miles13
Goldthwaite8.7 miles14
Castor8.8 miles15
Durenville9.0 miles14
Scallorn10.3 miles12
Bozar10.5 miles16

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q117375944The 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.