Clinton CDP (Armstrong County), PA

Clinton is a census-designated place in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County, tucked into a deep bend of the Allegheny River northeast of Freeport. Enos McBride surveyed seventy-five lots in July 1830, and the original plan ran Water Street along the river, with cross streets laid out in a grid. That is the key to the place: a small river town whose street plan still points straight to the water.

Clinton's location puts it in the Allegheny River story that shapes Armstrong County. The river served as an early transportation corridor; today the community sits in a township landscape, connected by road to Freeport and broader river towns. The historic plan included a separate upper plat and River Road, details that show this was meant to be a real town site, not just a handful of houses. The local scoop is that Clinton's identity is all in the bend: the river, Water Street, and McBride's 1830 town plan still line up.