Centerville North Carolina Map

About Centerville, North Carolina

Centerville is a locality in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 149. The population density is 35.3 people per km². Centerville is located at 36.1863°N, 78.1055°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 27549.

Centerville maintains a quiet presence amidst the red clay and loblolly pines of the North Carolina piedmont, where the land stretches out in long, gentle rises and shallow basins. It lies 19.1 miles east-southeast of Henderson, NC (from Henderson, NC: bearing 121°T), and is situated 16.6 miles north-northwest of Nashville. The horizon remains wide and open, broken only by the silhouettes of old barns and the distant, hazy suggestion of Medoc Mountain rising fourteen miles to the west. A mile from the center, the dark, slow-moving waters of Sandy Creek carve a narrow path through the undergrowth, feeding the damp, fertile soil that sustains the surrounding timber and field crops. As the sun dips low, the light catches the dust motes in the air, turning the landscape into a study of amber and deep shadow that feels both vast and profoundly still.

Centerville owes its character to a long inheritance of agrarian labor, where the cultivation of tobacco once dictated the seasonal pulse of the local economy. Though the industry has shifted, the legacy remains in the sturdy, weathered architecture of the older storefronts and the sparse, deliberate pace of the daily commute. Residents often look toward the Shocco Creek Game Land, a two-mile expanse of protected woods, to find a reprieve from the heat or to hunt the quiet thickets that define this part of the county. Life here follows the subtle cycles of the harvest and the changing temperatures, tethered to the modest nearby waters of Fraziers Pond, which sits eight miles away as a mirror for the passing clouds.

About This Centerville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Centerville, North Carolina. Coordinates: 36.186262, -78.105546. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Centerville includes the ZIP code (27549), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Franklin County (Louisburg), and school district assignment (Franklin County Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.