Mainville, PA

Mainville is a census-designated place in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 134 residents. Mainville is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mainville is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Mainville, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Mainville, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. A gristmill was built in the Mainville area in 1814. The Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, later part of the Reading Railroad, was built through Mainville in the 1850s, followed by the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad in the early 1870s. Mainville is bordered by Catawissa Creek to the west, just north of its water gap between Catawissa Mountain to the west and Nescopeck Mountain to the east.