Centerville, Butte County, California
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Centerville is a Butte County community along Butte Creek. The area is about one and three quarters miles, straight-line distance, west of Paradise. The US Geological Survey defines it as a populated place with a feature ID of 1658249. The community is 640 feet above mean sea level. The Survey plots its location as latitude/longitude (NAD27). The area is inside Area code 530. Access to the area is via Honey Run Road off Skyway Avenue about 1.5 miles east of State Route 99.
Centerville Cemetery is located less than a mile northeast at (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.
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- 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
Incorporated places
Oroville (County seat) • Biggs • Chico • Gridley • Paradise
Census-designated places
Concow • Durham • Magalia • Oroville East • Palermo • South Oroville • Thermalito
Other unincorporated communities
Bangor • Berry Creek • Butte Meadows • Camp Eighteen • Centerville • Cherokee • Cohasset • DeSabla • Feather Falls
Forest Ranch • Inskip • Merrimac • Oregon City • Pulga • Richvale • Stirling City
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