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Centerville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Centerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75833. It stands on Cattail Branch. The Survey maps it on the Centerville quadrangle. 905 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 354 feet above sea level.

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Centerville within Leon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Centerville grew from 892 to 905 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010892
2020905+13 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1996 and 2016, burning about 180 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2014Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORMANGE
9 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4020
8 August 1996Natural34 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1996Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 695
10 August 2001Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 36
6 July 2013Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4018
15 June 2006Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 151

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCenterville$40,000Damage was reported in Centerville, including multiple downed power lines and trees. One power pole and one tree was down on top of a house. A tree also fell on a car.
December 2006Tornado (F0)Centerville$35,000At least three barns and one residence were damaged on CR 977 near CR 210 and also at the intersection of FM 2045 and CR 4025.
April 2025LightningCenterville$20,000Emergency management reported a storage building being struck by lightning and destroyed by fire on CR 205 near Pleasant Springs. Time was estimated from lightning network data.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindCenterville$20,000Sixty-five MPH winds were estimated in Centerville. The strong winds brought down power lines, caused minor roof damage, and damaged the side of one building.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindCenterville$15,000Seventy foot tree blown down on top of house.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindCenterville$7,000Damaging thunderstorm winds knocked down and damaged large pine trees 3 miles south of Centerville. 65 mph winds had been estimated in Centerville.
December 2015Flash FloodCenterville$5,000An amateur radio operator located 2 miles east of Centerville reported his private road was washed out by heavy rainfall.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCenterville$2,000no account filed
April 2011HailCenterville$1,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindCenterville$500A storage building was blown over by high winds.
May 2024Flash FloodCenterville-Emergency management reported the Interstate 45 service road near mile marker 168 was closed due to floodwaters.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Several broken trees and large tree limbs were observed along Highway 7 near County Road 203 east of Centerville.
November 2015Flash FloodCenterville-Leon County Sheriff's Department reported water over FM 1119 approximately 3 miles south of Centerville, TX. One eastbound lane of Highway 7 just east of FM 1119 was closed due to high water.
June 2012HailCenterville-Dime sized hail was reported by the COOP Observer in Centerville.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A 65 MPH wind gust was estimated in Centerville.
February 2009HailCenterville-Penny size hail fell in Centerville.
February 2005Flash FloodCenterville-Several roads in the Fort Boggy State Park closed with water over them.
November 2002Flash FloodCenterville-Interstate 45 southbound between Centerville and Old San Antonio Road was closed in two places due to high water. Roads near Boggy Creek and Spring Creek also closed due to high water.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A tree was blown down onto Highway 7.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Large trees were blown down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A tree was blown down onto U.S Highway 75 in town.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Several trees were blown down by strong winds on Farm-to-Market Road 1511, 3 miles north of the Hopewell Community.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Several trees were blown down by high winds.
April 2011HailCenterville-no account filed
May 2003HailCenterville-no account filed
December 2002HailCenterville-no account filed
December 2002HailCenterville-no account filed
May 2001HailCenterville-no account filed
April 1999HailCenterville-no account filed
January 1999HailCenterville-no account filed
January 1998HailCenterville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed
March 1996HailCenterville-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Redland3.0 miles7
Spring Seat4.7 miles7
Pleasant Ridge5.0 miles9
South Salem5.0 miles8
Pleasant Springs5.7 miles9
North Salem6.4 miles8
Leona7.1 miles9
Friendship7.4 miles8

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 CentervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q950565The 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 1354216. 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.