Discreet Biohazard Cleanup Near North Centerville Centerville, KS

Centerville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Linn County, Kansas, situated on Sugar Creek and founded in 1855, located 8.5 miles north of Blue Mound and about 12 miles northwest of Mound City, the county seat.

The first post office in Centerville was established in March 1855, and unlike many small Kansas towns its post office remains open today with ZIP Code 66014.

Centerville became a shipping and supply town for a considerable farming district when the Kansas City branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway came through, supporting local industries, a grain elevator and a passenger depot.

In 1910 Centerville had a money order post office, express and telegraph offices, and a population of 175.

A booster station was built for the Amoco Oil Company in Centerville in 1918, and the old Amoco Pumphouse building was converted into an event venue in 2007, providing a chapel, an atrium and luxury suites.

About three miles northeast of Centerville is the St. Philippine Duchesne Shrine, marking the site of St. Mary's Mission, also called the Sugar Creek Mission, which operated from 1839 to 1849 and marks the end of the Pottawatomie Trail of Death.

Centerville has a humid subtropical climate under the Köppen classification, with hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

The 2020 United States census counted 78 people in 31 households and 24 families in Centerville, with 33 housing units and a median age of 37.0 years.

The community is served by the Prairie View USD 362 public school district in La Cygne.

Centerville was the birthplace of Wayne Lamb (1920-2001), the Broadway dancer, choreographer, theatre director and professor of dance for whom the Wayne Lamb Lobby at Purdue University's Pao Hall for the Performing Arts was dedicated.