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Geneva is a census-designated place in the northern part of Greenwood Township in southwestern Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Geneva was originally known as Sutton's Corners, after the farmers John Sutton and John Gelvin, whose farms made up much of the village site.

Geneva was incorporated as a borough in 1872 — the first election was held that March — though it is an unincorporated census-designated place today.

The railroad reached Geneva in 1863 on the line of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, and from that time the village grew steadily, reaching a population of about 400 by the 1890s, with stores, hotels, shops, factories, a graded school, and two churches.

A class of the Methodist Episcopal Church met for worship near Geneva as early as 1820, and the village's Methodist church building was erected in 1858 at a cost of $1,200.

Geneva's population was 121 at the 2020 census, up slightly from 109 in 2010; in 2000 the CDP had 115 people living in 48 households.

Geneva covers just 0.22 square miles, making it one of the smallest census-designated places in Crawford County.

Pennsylvania Route 285 passes through Geneva, leading southeast about 3 miles to Exit 141 on Interstate 79 and northwest about 6 miles to the resort borough of Conneaut Lake.

Geneva lies within the Conneaut School District, which serves Greenwood Township and the western third of Crawford County, with its single high school, Conneaut Area Senior High School, located in Linesville.

Census Bureau survey figures give Geneva a median household income of about $70,313, and its most commonly reported ancestries are German and Irish.