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Centralia, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Centralia-Chehalis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98531. It lies near Seminary Hill. The Survey maps it on the Centralia quadrangle. 18,183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Centralia within Lewis County

On record in Centralia

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Centralia grew from 16,336 to 18,183 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
201016,336
202018,183+1,847 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Centralia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSCATTER FIRE
22 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPROFFITT RD
1 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELIZABETH
31 August 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRAF STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Centralia: 14 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
CentraliaSilicaOccurrence
CentraliaGemstoneOccurrence
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
BrownClayPast Producer
Gillingham PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayPast Producer
Bernobich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centralia Pit & Plant No. 64Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Foron Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hanaford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Blakeslee Junction1.7 miles17
Fords Prairie2.3 miles17
Wabash2.4 miles17
Chehalis3.8 miles17
Galvin4.3 miles15
Nulls Crossing4.9 miles15
Claquato6.0 miles15
Newaukum6.1 miles17

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 Q868700The 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 1503899. 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.