The Centerville plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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66° on Nov. 13, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1968. Next is 65° in 1990.
Centerville’s center stands about 1,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,570 ft to 1,890 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Stacker Butte, about 3,210 ft, 10 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Miocene volcanic rocks (basalt), from the Late Oligocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 28 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt. Age: Late Oligocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 28 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Early Pliocene to Holocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 16 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Centerville reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Swale Creek, the Klickitat and the Columbia: about 210 river miles.
180 miles of the trip are on the Columbia.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Centerville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Centerville has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 21 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Centerville normally reaches 44° and falls to 29°. The record high is 65°, in 1999; the record low 5°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 2015.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1968 at Satus Pass 2 SSW, 18 miles northeast, 980 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
