Centralia is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Braxton County,

West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...

, United States. It was so named because it is in the central part of a county which also happens to be at the geographic center of the state. Its ZIP code is 26601.

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Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Braxton County, West Virginia Populated places on the Elk River (West Virginia) {{BraxtonCountyWV-geo-stub