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Centuria, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Croix Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 54824. The Survey maps it on the Centuria quadrangle. 891 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Centuria within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Centuria fell from 948 to 891 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
2010948
2020891-57 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Centuria between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60
20 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60
15 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020187

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Centuria: 10 occurrences, 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Balsam Branch Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Balsam Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Centuria Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Centuria Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deer Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dwight Parmeter Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Frank Svoboda PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John Northquist Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centuria in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCenturia-About one dozen trees were tipped over or large branches broken.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCenturia-Several trees were uprooted. The door of a barn was blown off track.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCenturia-The local emergency manager reported that several trees were uprooted or blown down from Centuria, to Balsam Lake, and Milltown, Wisconsin. Most of the trees were small but some did manage to pulled down power lines and block roads.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCenturia-A large tree was blown down just north of 160th Street.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCenturia-A large tree was blown down and blocked 190th Avenue, east of Highway 35.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindCenturia-Over 20 miles of roads were blocked by downed trees and power lines in the northwest portion of the county. Siding, roof, and window damage was reported in the Sterling Township area. The roof of an old school building was blown off in Centuria. The time was estimated.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCenturia-Shed down. Large limbs and power lines down. Estimated winds.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Centuria-Brief Touchdown. No damage.
September 2024HailCenturia-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCenturia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Lamar2.0 miles22
Lykens4.9 miles14
Balsam Lake5.3 miles14
Saint Croix Falls5.4 miles23
Milltown5.7 miles16
Sand Lake5.7 miles22
Eureka Center6.7 miles16
Ubet6.9 miles22

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 CenturiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2292988The 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 1562913. 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.