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Doing a simple search on Topozone.com, I found that there are 107 Centervilles in the United States. A couple of these appeared to be duplicates, but even after factoring out these, there were still over 100 different Centerville's listed. There are also eight places called "Centreville, bringing the total to about 112.
http://www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp?method=place&placename=centerville&statefips=0
44 of 50 states had at least one Centerville/Centreville, with only Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon. and Wyoming being without one. Pennsylvania has nine Centervilles, Virginia has eight, Illinois has seven, while Ohio and Georgia each have six.
Now, I'm sure that a significant number of these towns are mere crossroads localities and unicorporated communities of less than 100 people, such as the one in New Mexico below. Others may be ghost towns - having a population at one time, but now just an in-name-only site that still bears "Centerville" on topographic maps.
You would have to click on each link to find out for sure.
But there's still a lot of Centervilles. A lot more than the Springfields, Marions or Athens' that are also common town names. Can you think of any other common town names?
http://www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp?method=place&placename=centerville&statefips=0
44 of 50 states had at least one Centerville/Centreville, with only Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon. and Wyoming being without one. Pennsylvania has nine Centervilles, Virginia has eight, Illinois has seven, while Ohio and Georgia each have six.
Now, I'm sure that a significant number of these towns are mere crossroads localities and unicorporated communities of less than 100 people, such as the one in New Mexico below. Others may be ghost towns - having a population at one time, but now just an in-name-only site that still bears "Centerville" on topographic maps.
You would have to click on each link to find out for sure.
But there's still a lot of Centervilles. A lot more than the Springfields, Marions or Athens' that are also common town names. Can you think of any other common town names?
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