Centerville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Butte County, California
Butte County () is a county located in the northern central part of the U.S. state of California. In the 2020 census, its population was 211,632. The county seat is Oroville.
Butte County comprises the Chico, California, metropolitan stat ...
along
Butte Creek. It was midway between
Helltown and
Diamondville.
The area is about one and three quarters miles, straight-line distance, west of
Paradise
In religion and folklore, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical, eschatological, or both, often contrasted with the miseries of human ...
.
Geography
The US Geological Survey defines it as a populated place with a feature ID of 1658249. The community is above mean sea level. The area is inside
area code 530
Area codes 530 and 837 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in northeastern and Northern California. 530 was created in 1997 in an area code split of 916 and 837 was added to the same numbering plan area as an ov ...
. Access to the area is via Honey Run Road off Skyway Avenue about east of
State Route 99.
History
The post office was named for John Adams, its first postmaster, and operated from 1880 to 1913.
Centerville Cemetery is located less than a mile northeast at (NAD27).
Centerville Power Plant is a small
hydroelectric
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energ ...
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
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Butte County, California
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