Clairton, Pennsylvania Clairton, Pennsylvania Clairton is a town/city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River.
The populace was 6,796 at the 2010 census. Under Pennsylvania legal classifications for small-town governments, Clairton is considered a third-class city.
It is home to Clairton Works, the biggest coke manufacturing facility in the United States.
The town/city was the setting for the movie The Deer Hunter (1978), although none of the movie was actually filmed there (other foundry towns in the Monongahela River Valley and elsewhere in the tri-state region were used).
Even the opening scene, which features a large sign saying "Welcome to Clairton, City of Prayer," was shot in Mingo Junction, Ohio, although its phrasing is based on lesser signs posted at the city's boundaries amid the mid-1960s (as a response to the Supreme Court's 1963 ban on sponsored school prayer).
The Montour Trail, a recreational rail-trail, extends from Clairton to Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2).
Clairton, Hometown Pride Still Alive in a Declining Steel Town, 14:13, Grapple, Keystone Crossroads Clairton's existence began just after the turn of the 20th century when the Crucible Steel Company acquired a large tract along the west side of the Monongahela River, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Pittsburgh.
On April 12, 1903, Clairton was incorporated as a borough, and on January 1, 1922, Clairton was incorporated as a City of the Third Class with a populace of approximately 11,000.
This incorporation was prompted by industry, which was taxed by the three boroughs - Clairton, Wilson and North Clairton - which were chartered separately before to the incorporation of the City of Clairton.
As the steel foundry and coke manufacturing facilities expanded, the populace of Clairton grew.
In the late 1950s, Clairton High School (CHS) had a large student body, and the town/city had a "feeder" fitness of enhance and parochial elementary schools.
During the mid-1950s and into the 1960s, CHS was a Class AAA competitor in the formidable Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL), playing against high schools in other foundry towns up and down the Monongahela River Valley.
With the diminish of the steel trade in the 1980s, Clairton began to experience harsh enigma in its employment and tax base, which spurred a primary economic shock to the community.
In 1988, Clairton was designated a distressed municipality by Pennsylvania's Department of Community Affairs (DCA).
By 1988, the Clairton School District had merged its entire fitness into a single building (a remodeled version of the high school) and closed its other schools.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $25,596, and the median income for a family was $31,539.
Further information: Category:People from Clairton, Pennsylvania "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Clairton city, Pennsylvania".
"Clairton, Hometown Pride Still Alive in a Declining Steel Town".
"1960 Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Enumeration '90: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"1940 Enumeration - Enumeration of Population and Housing - U.S.
City of Clairton official website Municipalities and communities of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
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