New Centerville, PA

New Centerville is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 127 residents. New Centerville is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. New Centerville should not be confused with the unincorporated village of New Centerville in Tredyffrin Township. Each September, the New Centerville & Rural Volunteer Fire Company sponsors the Farmers & Threshermens Jubilee. A newcomer can read New Centerville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, New Centerville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. A schoolhouse was built in what is now New Centerville about 1800, and Jacob Weimer taught there for several years. A church was built about 1813 and was shared by the Lutherans and the Presbyterians, and the Methodists built one about 1850. Pennsylvania Route 281 and Pennsylvania Route 653 both pass through New Centerville.