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Centerville is a city in southeastern Davis County, Utah, part of the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, located adjacent to the easternmost part of the Great Salt Lake.

Centerville was first settled by Thomas Grover in the autumn of 1847, was originally known as Deuel Settlement and then Cherry Creek, and was renamed Centerville after an 1850 survey found the town located precisely between Farmington and Bountiful.

In the winter of 1849, Shadrach Roundy built a grist mill on Deuel Creek in the Centerville vicinity, where he also made molasses from corn stalks, and a log school house was built in Centerville in 1851.

Centerville City was incorporated by the State of Utah on May 4, 1915, and the Utah Central Rail Road had reached the town in 1869.

As of the 2020 census, Centerville had a population of 16,884 and 5,597 households, with a median age of 36.0 years.

Centerville was the home of Latter-day Saint church leader B. H. Roberts, and its first branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in 1850, becoming a ward in 1852.

The city is situated on a thin strip of land between the Wasatch Mountain Range and Farmington Bay, and its motto is Making Life Better, with the nickname C-Ville.

In 1983, abnormally high precipitation for several months culminated in mudslides and flooded creeks in Centerville and throughout northern Utah, and in December 2011 a severe wind storm caused power outages and over 8 million dollars in damage.

Parrish Lane, one of the most heavily traveled areas of Davis County, runs through Centerville, established in 1965 as a connector from Interstate 15 to State Route 106 and extended westward to the Legacy Parkway in 2008, and it is now home to the city's commercial district.

Centerville maintains five public schools in the city, including four elementary schools and Centerville Junior High, while the nearest high school is Viewmont High School in Bountiful.