Centerville borough (Crawford County), PA

Centerville is a borough in northeastern Crawford County, set within Rome Township's countryside. The town's beginnings go back to Charles Peck, who bought the land from Daniel McBride in 1815 and was selling lots by 1832. A post office was established in 1817, and early county maps used the spelling Centreville before the borough took the official form Centerville. On April 14, 1865, the town was incorporated as a borough from part of Rome Township.

That timeline gives Centerville a classic small-settlement feel: first a few lots and a post office, then a local center with its own legal boundary and borough government. The community is small, but its name shows up repeatedly in Crawford County's maps, directories, gazetteers, census records, and county histories. Today the borough sits in the rural northwestern Pennsylvania landscape between the county's larger towns, with roads and neighboring townships doing most of the regional connecting. The local scoop is that Centerville's identity is older than its current population count: the post office and surveyed lots were already anchoring the place decades before borough status made it an official municipality.