Centerville, NC

Centerville is a census-designated place in the rural northeastern corner of Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 149 residents. Centerville was an incorporated town from 1965 to 2017. Centerville is centered on "the crossroads", which is the intersection of NC-561 and NC-58 and the site of two small old-fashioned general stores. The short version is that Centerville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Centerville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Centerville was established circa 1882 and named for its central location between the towns of Louisburg, Warrenton and Littleton. Centerville was incorporated in 1965, four years after the dissolution of the nearby town of Wood.