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Centralia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75926. The Survey maps it on the Centralia quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Centralia within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Centralia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 13 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 245
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 523
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 906
13 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2019Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY 15:12
8 August 1996Natural20 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasNOGALUS
7 August 1996Natural4.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasTRINITY II
5 August 1998Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centralia in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Centralia$30,000Tornado tracked through portions of Davy Crockett National Forest with extensive tree damage in the Moore Cemetery Road area. Damage appeared more concentrated in path described surrounded by area of more scattered wind damage.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCentralia$16,000Trees were reported blown down on a home located on Forest Road 527 in the Davy Crockett National Forest.
April 2024Flash FloodCentralia-Flash flooding along CR 233 and CR 358 north of Groveton resulted in roadways becoming impassable.
April 2023HailCentralia-Baseball sized hail was observed.
April 2020HailCentralia-Golf ball sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Nogalus2.6 miles11
Center Point2.8 miles11
Crecy4.0 miles10
Apple Springs4.6 miles10
Centerville5.3 miles10
Helmic6.0 miles10
Vair6.9 miles12
Nigton7.4 miles10

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 CentraliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1054092The 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 1381623. 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.