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Encyclopedia > Centerville, Butte County, California

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 39°47′16″N, 121°39′15″W (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. Butte County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, north of state capital Sacramento. ... Butte Creek is tributary to the Sacramento River, joining the river in the vicinity of Colusa, California. ... Paradise is a city located in Butte County, in the north of Californias Central Valley, some 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Chico and 100 miles (160 km) north of Sacramento. ... The 530 area code covers Chico, Redding, Marysville, Red Bluff, Oroville, Placerville, and Truckee, California. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 KER 0. ...


Centerville Cemetery is located less than a mile northeast at 39°47′58″N, 121°38′46″W (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. Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...


Sources

  • 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


 

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