Centerville, Butte County, California

Not to be confused with Center Ville, California.

Coordinates: 39°47′16″N 121°39′19″W / 39.78778°N 121.65528°W / 39.78778; -121.65528

Centerville
Unincorporated community
Centerville Location in California
Coordinates: 39°47′16″N 121°39′19″W / 39.78778°N 121.65528°W / 39.78778; -121.65528
Country	United States
State	California
County	Butte County
Elevation^[1]	659 ft (201 m)

Centerville is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California along Butte Creek. It was midway between Helltown and Diamondville.^[2] The area is about one and three quarters miles, straight-line distance, west of Paradise.

Geography

The US Geological Survey defines it as a populated place with a feature ID of 1658249. The community is 659 feet (201 m) above mean sea level. The area is inside area code 530. Access to the area is via Honey Run Road off Skyway Avenue about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of State Route 99.

History

The community's ZIP code is 95928. The post office was named for John Adams, its first postmaster, and operated from 1880 to 1913.^[2]

Centerville Cemetery is located less than a mile northeast at 39°47′58″N 121°38′46″W / 39.79944°N 121.64611°W / 39.79944; -121.64611 (NAD27).

Centerville Power Plant is a small hydroelectric power plant in the community. When the plant is in operation, the volume of water in the creek goes up. Signs downstream along Butte Creek warn that the water level can rise suddenly without warning. The facility was built about 1900 and generates electricity using water facilities that once supplied a hydraulic mine during California's Gold Rush.

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Centerville, Butte County, California
1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 210. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Centerville, Butte County, California
US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database
Map: Paradise West, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1980, US Geological Survey.
US Census Bureau, 2000 census statistical area records

Municipalities and communities of Butte County, California, United States

County seat: Oroville

Cities and towns	Biggs Chico Gridley Oroville Paradise

CDPs	Bangor Berry Creek Butte Creek Canyon Butte Meadows Butte Valley Cherokee Clipper Mills Cohasset Concow Durham Forbestown Forest Ranch Honcut Kelly Ridge Magalia Nord Oroville East Palermo Rackerby‡ Richvale Robinson Mill South Oroville Stirling City Thermalito Yankee Hill

Unincorporated communities	Anita Big Bar Big Bend Blavo Brush Creek Camp Eighteen Cana Centerville Chapmantown Craig Cresta Dayton Deadwood DeSabla Dodge Place Dodgeland East Biggs East Gridley Elsey Esquon Fagan Feather Falls Helltown Hughes Place Hurleton Inskip Irish Town James Jonesville Junction House Kister Kramm Lomo Lovelock Lumpkin Mayaro Merrills Landing Merrimac Mineral Slide Nelson Nelsons Crossing Nimshew Oak Grove Old Forbestown Oregon City Oroleve Oroville Junction Paradise Pines Parkhill Peachton Pentz Poe Powellton Pulga Ramada Rancho Llano Seco Riceton Richardson Springs Robinsons Corner Roble Rogerville Shippee Stirling Junction Sunnyslope The Pines Toadtown Vista Robles Wicks Corner Wyandotte

Ghost towns	Appleton Avon Bagdad Bauka Bayu Berdan Bidwell Bidwell's Bar Big Ripples Blinzing Bloomer Brush Butte Creek Center Ville Chandon Channel Chardon Clear Creek Colbys Landing Coutolenc Craig Crouch David Dawlytown Diamondville Dredge Enterprise Eskini Evans Evansville Flea Valley Gimbal Gold Lake Greenland Gridley Colony Number One Gridley Colony Number Two Hamilton Haselbusch Hawk Ravine Hokomo Holhoto Honcut City Hume Hylandville Intake Isaiah Johnson Kalkalya Kulaiapto Land Las Plumas Lava Beds Long's Bar Lorraine Losee Luce Lynchburg Martinsburgh McKay Meadow Michopdo Mill City Millers Ranch Mortimer Moseley Mulberry Neals Diggins Nelson Bar New Blinzing Oak Arbor Ololopa Omit Bar Optimo Oregon Bar Orloff Ostrander Otaki Pacific Heights Paki Paradise Flat Phillips Corner Pipers Platts Pond Potter's Bar Powellton Meadow Quartz Richland Rio Seco Rock Creek Savona Soto South Fork Speedway Stanwood Summit Sundale Sunusi Swayne Swedes Flat Sycamore Crossing Tadoiko Taikus Tarr's Ranch Tilden Tolle's Old Diggings Totoma Tsuka Virginia Mills Wagners Wagstaff Ward West Branch Whiskey Flat (east) Whiskey Flat (west) Yankee Flat Yauko Yuman

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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