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Townville is a small borough in eastern Crawford County, completely surrounded by Steuben Township.

Townville was founded in 1824 by Noah Town and named for him (local histories also date the borough's formal founding to 1831).

Townville began as a sawmill town — early settlers dammed Muddy Creek to power their mills, and the sawn lumber was floated east to Oil Creek and rafted down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh.

After oil was struck at Titusville in 1859 and the Pennsylvania oil boom began, Noah Town sold oak staves from Townville's mills for making oil barrels.

Townville's population peaked at 610 in 1880 during the lumber era, and the borough counted 326 residents at the 2020 census.

Townville had 119 households in the 2000 census, when the average household size was 2.57 people.

Townville covers only about half a square mile but sits high for the region, at roughly 1,411 feet above sea level, on the height of land between north-flowing Muddy Creek and south-flowing Sugar Creek.

Pennsylvania Route 408 runs through Townville, leading east to Hydetown and northwest to Cambridge Springs, with Meadville, the Crawford County seat, about 15 miles west.

Every July, Townville and its neighbors hold Old Home Days, a weekend festival supporting the volunteer fire department with lawn tractor pulls, a children's frog jump, outhouse races, water battles, and a parade.

Townville students attend the Penncrest School District — the district's name is an acronym that includes Townville (Pennsylvania, Cambridge Springs, Randolph, East Mead, Saegertown, Townville) — and Maplewood Elementary School is located in the borough.