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Centerville, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the South Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84014. It lies in Centerville Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Bountiful Peak quadrangle. 16,884 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,377 feet above sea level.

Centerville within Davis 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 12 of 27 shown

Every listing in Davis County

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Centerville grew from 15,335 to 16,884 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
201015,335
202016,884+1,549 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 25 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Arthur H. Pettit House, 42 East One-Hundred South, Centerville, Davis County, UT
Arthur H. Pettit House, 42 East One-Hundred South, Centerville, Davis County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,302 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural10
Fireworks9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1

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
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLUCKY LYNN
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTELEPHONE POLE
3 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFARMINGTON FLAT
28 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBUCKLAND 2
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forestnot named
16 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBUCKLAND FLAT
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPARRISH
14 September 2016Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 9 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium, Copper, Quartz. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buckland Mining and Development ProspectCopper, Silver, IronOccurrenceVein
FoulgerQuartzOccurrence
Lucky LUraniumOccurrence
Morning Star Claims GroupCopper, GoldOccurrence
Upper Ward Canyon ProspectsCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceUnderground
BerylBerylliumOccurrence
BerylBerylliumOccurrence
Se Centerville Canyon ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Sw Centerville Canyon ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Alvie's Concrete IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
August 2021Flash FloodCenterville$100,000Flash flooding was reported on the Bountiful Bench, with water flowing through a home.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Centerville$10,000Severe pre-frontal thunderstorms developed along the Wasatch front. In the Kearns area, gusts were measured at 58 mph. In the Centerville area, a gustnado occurred. Witnesses indicated they heard a train sound and saw both trees and dirt moving in circular motions. The overall damage path was about 0.5 miles long and less than 0.1 mile wide. The gustnado moved from south to north, with it apparently skipping into the air, not causing damage along the entire path length. One witness was briefly lifted into the air as the gustnado passed over. One house incurred $10,000 in damage. They reported severe tree damage, had two skylights lifted from part of the roof, and had an electric junction box removed from the side of the house. Their next door neighbor reported that two-inch diameter willow branches were removed from the tree, transported 100 feet and over a single story building, and were wrapped tightly around the base of another tree. At a third house, a flag pole that had previously withstood 90 mph winds was snapped. The gustnado bent a six-foot chain fence to a 45 degree angle towards the east.
October 2004Flash FloodCenterville$10,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCenterville-Public reported a large branch to around 6 inches in diameter was snapped from a severe wind gust associated with a thunderstorm. A photo was shared on social media.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCenterville-The EW2533 Bountiful Bench mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 59 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindCenterville-A 62 mph wind gust was recorded at the Bountiful Bench.
August 2006HailCenterville-Unofficial report of ping-pong ball size hail. Radar estimates 1 to 1.5" so report is possible. 3/4" report also from Centerville.
June 2000HailCenterville-Severe thunderstorms brought 3/4-1 inch hail to the Centerville area, damaging tree limbs along with a few gardens.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Hillcrest0.2 miles25
Florece0.2 miles25
Sheridan0.3 miles25
Valley View Heights0.3 miles25
Deuel Creek Heights0.3 miles25
Major0.3 miles25
Circle View Heights0.4 miles25
Parrish Heights0.4 miles24

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 Q483235The 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 1439622. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.