Centerville is a town in the rural northeastern corner of Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 89 at the 2010 census, a loss of 10 persons from the previous count of 99 at the 2000 census. There is no post office in Centerville, and thus no zip code; it simply uses that of Louisburg, which is located 12 miles (19 km) west. "Downtown" Centerville is centered on "the crossroads", which is the intersection of NC-561 and NC-58, and consists of three small old-fashioned country stores, one each on three of that intersection's four corners. One has a butcher store inside (Hamlet's), two sell gasoline (Arnold's and The Country Store), and one of those also sells diesel and kerosene (The Country Store).