Centerville is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States.

[3] The town is in the northwest corner of Allegany County and is named after its principal settlement.

Minard describes this first settler in his History of Centerville: "He was only 18, and came from Otsego Co. Two cents and a few articles of provisions and clothing constituted his wealth.

At Pike he took from his feet a pair of new shoes, bartered them for an axe, and pushed on into the wilderness, and in the center of the township near a small stream erected the rudest kind of a hut.

"² James Ward settled there in the fall of 1808, and a half dozen more families moved there in the following year.

The Centerville Town Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

French, J. H., Gazetteer of the State of New York, Embracing a Comprehensive View of the Geography, Geology, and General History of the State..., Syracuse: R. Pearsall Smith, 1860, view online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=R_zHwh4xByQC&dq=allegany+county+new+york+history&pg=PA1 2.