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Centerville, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 53543. It stands on Bronson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highland West quadrangle.

Centerville within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Centerville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. None 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 April 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCAMP ROAD TRACTOR FIRE
5 April 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Recreation and ceremony14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOWERS
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY BALER FIRE
14 April 1996Debris and open burning6.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Centerville: 22 unknowns, 21 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Jones and Snow MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Jones and Snow MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Steppler Farm ProspectCopper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Clark Mine Group, Copper ProspectCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Lampe-Eberle MineCopper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1900
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Cherry BranchLead, ZincPast Producer
Highland MineLead, ZincPast Producer1846
Red Jacket MineLead, ZincPast Producer1906

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
July 2008HailCenterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Montfort3.1 miles13
Castle Rock5.9 miles10
Preston6.9 miles15
Livingston8.1 miles13
Annaton9.3 miles15
Lancaster Junction10.2 miles15
Hickory Grove10.9 miles10
Homer11.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577540. 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.