How to find the shops at Feedwire and Wilmington

However, there is no Walmart in Centerville. The release was referring to the store farther south on Wilmington Pike in Sugarcreek Twp.

Also, on its website, the Donatos pizza place in the strip mall along Feedwire is listed as being in Bellbrook. It is in Centerville.

The Home Depot and PetSmart list their addresses as Centerville, but those businesses and Target are in Sugarcreek Twp.

The bottom line: Cracker Barrel, Tire Discounters and the two strip malls closest to Feedwire and Wilmington are Centerville businesses; those farther south of Feedwire and east of Wilmington are in Sugarcreek Twp.

Some of this geographical confusion likely stems from Centerville’s annexation of the Dille family land from Sugarcreek Twp. in 2006. The city gained the wooded land to the northeast of that intersection, part of the commercial southeast corner of the intersection and an undeveloped tract just south of the intersection, past I-675.

“That was the connector piece,” Economic Development Administrator Nathan Cahall said of the land with Cracker Barrel, Tire Discounters and the strip malls.

Cahall added that, at the time, Bear Creek Capital was developing that land and the Dille property.

“The reason the big box stores (Home Depot, Target and the PetSmart lot) didn’t (get annexed) at the time was that they had other owners,” Cahall said.

Another aspect lending itself to this cartographer’s quagmire is that the land annexed by Centerville also is, technically, in Sugarcreek Twp. Just as the bulk of Centerville is within Washington Twp., Montgomery County, this annexed land is in Centerville and within Sugarcreek Twp., Greene County.

Local income taxes paid by Centerville residents and businesses go only to the city, but the land officially is part of each of those townships and therefore subject to property taxes from both.