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Crossville is a village in northeastern White County that was laid out in 1872 by surveyor John Mills for Thomas Cross and Silas Elliott, and it was named for Thomas Cross.

Crossville owes its existence to a railroad land dispute - when Phillipstown landowners refused to donate land to the railroad in 1857, Thomas Cross donated a right-of-way through the center of his own land instead, and the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad officially opened through the new town on December 9, 1872.

Crossville was incorporated on September 30, 1895, and its town charter was filed on October 12, 1895.

Crossville had 782 residents and 341 households at the 2000 census, but its population had fallen to 623 by the 2020 census.

An EF3 wedge tornado tore through Crossville on February 28, 2017, heavily damaging the village as it passed through and killing one person.

Crossville High School, home of the Tigers, educated local students from 1921 until it closed in 1988 and consolidated into Carmi-White County High School, though a grade school still operates in the village.

The village maintains a memorial park near the old railroad bed where the tracks once ran through town, a quiet reminder of the rail line that created Crossville.

Oil discovered in the Wabash River bottoms in 1939 transformed White County, and Crossville shared in the boom - by 1940 it was said you could walk between Crossville and Grayville simply by walking from oil rig to oil rig.

Crossville sits on Illinois Route 1 about six miles south of Interstate 64 and only about seven miles west of the Indiana state line, near Carmi, the White County seat.

Crossville covers 0.64 square miles, and White County around it was organized in 1815 and named after Captain Leonard White, a Gallatin County legislator killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe.