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Centre is a city in Cherokee County in northeastern Alabama, and it is both the county seat and the largest city of Cherokee County.

The site of Centre was originally a Cherokee settlement known as Turkey Town, or Turkeytown, where the Cherokee chief Pathkiller lived.

Cherokee County was established on January 9, 1836, after the Cherokee ceded their land in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, and the first county seat was at Cedar Bluff.

In 1844 the county seat was moved to the more centrally located town of Centre, and the name, with its British English spelling, was chosen because of that central location in the county.

A brick courthouse was constructed in Centre in 1849, and the town's voters kept the county seat there in an 1850 vote despite efforts to return it to Cedar Bluff.

Until 1939 the United States Postal Service listed the city as 'Center,' but it acceded to residents' wishes and officially changed the spelling to Centre that year.

At the 2020 census, Centre had a population of 3,587; the 2010 census counted 3,489 people, 1,426 households, and 880 families in the city.

Centre covers 11.5 square miles, and its city limits extend north to the south shore of Weiss Lake on the Coosa River.

Weiss Lake, a roughly 30,000-acre reservoir created in 1961 when Alabama Power dammed the Coosa River, lies about five miles north of Centre and bills itself as the 'Crappie Capital of the World.'

Centre's Cherokee County Historical Museum displays Native American artifacts, military memorabilia from the Civil War to the present, and historic farming implements.