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Centerville is a small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, in the northern Twin Cities suburbs, and it is completely surrounded by the larger city of Lino Lakes.

French settlers Peltier, LaMotte and LaValle first platted and laid out Centerville in 1854, and Charles Peltier built the first sawmill in Anoka County there that same year.

Centerville was officially established in 1857, before Minnesota became a state, and it was incorporated on September 27, 1910.

The name Centerville was chosen because the town sat at the center of the routes between Saint Paul, the Mississippi River at Anoka, and the Saint Croix River at Stillwater, and it was a popular rest stop for pioneers traveling through the Minnesota Territory.

The 2020 census counted 3,896 people in Centerville, and the 2010 census counted 1,315 households in the city.

Centerville covers just 2.41 square miles, and about 12 percent of that area is water.

Centerville grew slowly for more than a century — it had only 1,658 residents in 1990 — then nearly doubled during the 1990s suburban building boom, reaching 3,178 people by 2000.

Because Centerville was already a well-established city when the surrounding township incorporated in 1955 to form Lino Lakes, the newer city grew up entirely around it, leaving Centerville as an enclave.

Centerville students are served by the Centennial School District, Independent School District 12.

The 2020 census put Centerville's median age at 40.3 years, with about a quarter of residents under the age of 18.