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Centerville, IndianaPhoto: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Centerville

Few parks or trails are on the map in Centerville

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Centerville yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Behind most U.S. towns · #587 of 593 in Indiana. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 3.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Bike routes
0.6 mi
0.6 mi paths

What kind of outdoors town is Centerville?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Centerville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Centerville is behind most U.S. towns, #587 of 593 in Indiana. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Centerville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
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Indiana towns of 2,500+ (593)#587 of 593

Few Indiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Centerville’s under 1% is ahead of 7% of Indiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Centerville. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would still be D−. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Things to do

1 places to go in Centerville

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Centerville

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

Biking & sports

0.6 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

0.6 mi
off-road bike paths
Courts & fields
6Tennis
2Tracks
1Football

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Centerville Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1971
About it
Oliver P. Morton HouseBuilding · listed 1975
About it
Westcott Stock FarmBuilding · listed 1998
About it
When to get out

August is the best month for walking in Centerville

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.713.712.411.19.99.4
High (°F)353950637381848377655140
Rain (in)3.22.43.54.44.84.94.53.33.43.13.33.3

February is the driest month (2.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 4.9 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Centerville →

Questions about parks and trails in Centerville

How much of Centerville is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for an Indiana town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Where can I bike in Centerville?

0.6 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.6 of off-road paths.

Is there public land near Centerville?

920 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Centerville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Centerville have?

Behind most U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #587 of 593 in Indiana. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Centerville neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →