Clayton may refer to:

People

Clayton (name) Clayton is both an English surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Science and academia Surname * Ruth Clayton (1925–2003), British medical researcher Historical Surname *Augustin Smith Clayton (1783–1839), ...

Clayton baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Clayton, two in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2021. The Clayton baronetcy, of Marden Park in t ...

The Clayton Brothers The Clayton Brothers is the brain child of saxophonist Jeff Clayton. According to Jeff, some 30 years ago he and his brother, Grammy Award winning bassist John Clayton, agreed to support each other's preferred formats. Jeff's love of small groups ...

, Jeff and John, jazz musicians * Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, painter artists *

Justice Clayton (disambiguation) Justice Clayton or Judge Clayton may refer to: * Boyce G. Clayton (1929–2020), associate justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court * John M. Clayton (1796–1856), chief justice of the Delaware Superior Court * Preston C. Clayton (1903–1996), assoc ...

, the judges Clayton

Places

Canada

* Clayton, Ontario *

Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333 The Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333 (Canada 2016 Census, 2016 population: ) is a List of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, rural municipality (RM) in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Di ...

, Saskatchewan

Australia

Clayton, Victoria Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,Clayton Bay Clayton Bay is a town in South Australia located on Lake Alexandrina and Lower Murray River, part of the lower lakes and Coorong region at the end of the Murray River System. The town is located north of the north-east tip of Hindmarsh Island ...

, a town in South Australia formerly known as Clayton *

Electoral district of Clayton The Electoral district of Clayton is a former electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was named for the Melbourne suburb of Clayton, and also includes Clarinda, Notting Hill as well as parts of surrounding suburbs. It wa ...

, a former electoral district in Victoria

United Kingdom

Clayton, Manchester Clayton is a suburb of Manchester, England, 3 miles east of the city centre on Ashton New Road. Historically in Lancashire, Clayton takes its name from the Clayton family who owned large parts of land around the area, including Clayton Vale, t ...

* Clayton, South Yorkshire *

Clayton, Staffordshire Clayton is a suburb and a ward in the south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Today Clayton lies on the boundary between urban and rural Staffordshire, not far from Newcastle's border with the Borough of Stafford. The older part of the v ...

, in Newcastle-under-Lyme *

Clayton, West Sussex Clayton is a small village at the foot of the South Downs in the parish of Hassocks, West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Burgess Hi ...

Clayton, West Yorkshire Clayton, or Clayton Village, is a civil parish in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, situated to the west of Bradford city centre. It is listed in the ''Domesday Book'', meaning it dates back to at least the ...

* Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire *

Clayton-le-Moors Clayton-le-Moors is an industrial town in the borough of Hyndburn in the county of Lancashire, England. located two miles north of Accrington. The town has a population of 8,522 according to the 2011 census. To the west lies Rishton, to the ...

, Lancashire *

Clayton-le-Woods Clayton-le-Woods (Commonly shortened to Clayton) is a large village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England. According to the census of 2001, it has a population of 14,528. At the 2011 census the population of Cuerde ...

, Lancashire

United States

Locales

Clayton, Alabama Clayton is a town in and the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama, United States. The population was 3,008 at the 2010 census, up from 1,475 in 2000. History Clayton has been the county seat since 1834, two years after the creation of Barbou ...

Clayton, California Clayton (formerly Clayton's and Claytonville) is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 10,897 as of the 2010 census. History In 1857, the town of Clayton was laid out and founded by Joel Henry Clayton (18 ...

, in Contra Costa County; formerly ''Clayton's'' *

Clayton, Placer County, California Clayton is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Clayton is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, northwest of Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the Un ...

Clayton, Delaware Clayton is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. Located almost entirely in Kent County, it is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,918 at the 2010 census. History Byr ...

Clayton, Georgia Clayton is a city in Rabun County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,003 at the 2020 census. The county seat of Rabun County, it is in the Blue Ridge Mountains. History The area that eventually became Clayton was called the Dividings ...

Clayton, Idaho Clayton is a city in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The population was 7 at the 2010 census, down from 27 in 2000. It is adjacent to the Salmon River. History Clayton was founded in 1881 as a smelter site for the nearby mines. Geogra ...

Clayton, Illinois Clayton is a village in Adams County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the total population was 639 people, down from 709 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Quincy, IL– MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Clayton ...

Clayton, Indiana Clayton is a small town in Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. The population was 972 at the 2010 census, up from 693 at the 2000 census. History In 1829 a little town in Liberty Township was named "Clayville", honorin ...

Clayton, Iowa Clayton is a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 45 at the 2020 census, down from 55 in 2000. Clayton is located directly on the Mississippi River and is only accessible via a very steep road. History Clayton was fou ...

Clayton, Kansas Clayton is a city in Decatur and Norton counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 44. History The first post office in Clayton was established in March 1879. Clayton was named for the valuable ...

Clayton, Louisiana Clayton is a town in northern Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 711 at the 2010 census. Cotton is a principal commodity in the area. Clayton is located on the Tensas River, important for fishing and boating, promote ...

Clayton, Maryland Clayton is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Clayton is located on Maryland Route 152, northwest of Edgewood Edgewood may refer to: Places Canada *Edgewood, British Columbia South Africa *Edgewood, a Unive ...

Clayton, Massachusetts Clayton, Massachusetts is the southernmost community in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It is part of the town of New Marlborough. References Populated places in Berkshire County, Massachusetts New Marlborough, Massachusetts {{Ber ...

* Clayton, Michigan, village in Lenawee County *

Clayton Township, Arenac County, Michigan Clayton Township is a civil township of Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,097 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , ...

Clayton Township, Genesee County, Michigan Clayton Charter Township, or more officially Charter Township of Clayton, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,581 at the 2010 census. Communities *The Village of Lennon is partially ...

* Clayton, Minnesota, in Faribault County *

Clayton Township, Mower County, Minnesota Clayton Township (formerly Providence Township) is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 178 at the 2000 census. All areas and population centers in the township are unincorporated areas. It was organized in June ...

Clayton, Mississippi Clayton is an unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico ...

* Clayton, Missouri *

Clayton, New Jersey Clayton is a borough in Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 8,807, an increase of 628 from the 2010 census count of 8,179,Clayton, New Mexico *

Clayton (town), New York Clayton is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 5,153 at the 2010 census. The town is named after John M. Clayton, a federal political leader from Delaware. The town contains a village also named Clayton. Bo ...

Clayton (village), New York Clayton is a village in the town of Clayton in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The village population was 1,978 at the 2010 census. Clayton is the home of the Antique Boat Museum and Clayton Opera House. The village is a summer resort ...

Clayton, North Carolina Clayton is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States, and is considered a satellite town of Raleigh. As of 2010, Clayton's population was 16,116, up from 6,973 at the 2000 census. By 2019 the town's estimated population was 24,887. ...

Clayton, Ohio Clayton is a city in Montgomery county in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 13,310 at the 2020 United States census. A suburb of Dayton. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city was named after John Clayton, a ...

Clayton, Oklahoma Clayton is a town in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 821 at the 2010 census. History Clayton was formerly known as Dexter. A United States Post Office was established at Dexter, Indian Territory on Marc ...

Clayton, Pennsylvania Clayton is an unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Clayton is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 100, Church Hill Road, and Kutztown Road on the border of Hereford and Washington Washington commonl ...

* Clayton, South Dakota *

Clayton, Texas Clayton is an unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 79 in 2000. Geography Enochs is located at (32.0982190, −94.4749246). It is situated ...

* Clayton, Washington *

Clayton, West Virginia Clayton is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, Summers County, West Virginia, United States. The community was first settled in 1813. Clayton once had a post office, which opened in 1879 and closed in ...

Clayton, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Clayton is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: * Clayton, Crawford County, Wisconsin, a town *Clayton, Polk County, Wisconsin a town *Clayton, Winnebago County, Wisconsin Clayton is a town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, Unit ...

, multiple locations

Counties

Clayton County, Georgia Clayton County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2021, the population was estimated to be 297,100 by the Census Bureau. The county seat is Jonesboro. Clayton County is included in the Atlanta metr ...

Clayton County, Iowa Clayton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,043. Its county seat is Elkader. The county was established in 1837 and was named in honor of John M. Clayton, United States Senator f ...

Clay County, Iowa Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,384. Its county seat is Spencer. Its name is in honor of Henry Clay Jr., a colonel who died in action in the Mexican–American War, and so ...

Clay County, Arkansas Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Originally incorporated as Clayton County, as of the 2010 census, its population was 16,083. The county has two county seats, Corning and Piggott. It is a dry county, in which the ...

, formerly "Clayton County"

Education

Clayton State University Clayton State University is a public university in Morrow, Georgia. It serves Metro Atlanta and is a selective Senior Unit of the University System of Georgia. The main campus includes of wooded grounds, featuring five lakes and a park-like at ...

, an accredited, reputable university in Georgia, USA *

Clayton College of Natural Health The Clayton College of Natural Health was a non-accredited American distance-learning college based in Birmingham, Alabama, offering classes in various forms of alternative medicine. The school was founded in 1980 by Lloyd Clayton Jr. as the Am ...

, a non-accredited distance-learning college in Alabama * Claytons Primary School,

Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Bourne End is a village mostly in the parish of Wooburn, but partly in that of Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about five miles (8 km) south-east of High Wycombe and three miles (5 km) east of Marlow, near the bounda ...

, England, UK

Facilities and structures

*"Clayton", Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; the main structure of

Frick Art & Historical Center The Frick Pittsburgh is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and formed around the Frick family's nineteenth-century residence known as "Clayton". It focuses on the interpretation of t ...

* Clayton Congregational Church, later Clayton Wesley Uniting Church, a church building in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Companies

Clayton Aniline Company The Clayton Aniline Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of dyestuffs, founded in 1876 by Charles Dreyfus in Clayton, Manchester. Early history Charles Dreyfus was a French emigrant chemist and entrepreneur, who founded the Clayton Aniline Co ...

, a British chemical company *

Clayton Equipment Company Clayton Equipment Company Ltd, now known simply as Clayton Equipment Ltd or CEC and CEL, is a locomotive construction company that specialises in rail equipment, design and build, tunnelling, mining, metro, mainline and shunter locomotives. In ...

, a British engineering company *

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is an American private equity company. It is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R has managed the investment of more than $30 billion in approximately 90 businesses, repre ...

, a private investment firm *

Clayton & Shuttleworth Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The company was established in 1842 when Nathaniel Clayton (1811–1890) formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttlewo ...

, a British engineering company

Other

Clayton (software) Clutter is a discontinued GObject-based graphics library for creating hardware-accelerated user interfaces. Clutter is an OpenGL-based 'interactive canvas' library and does not contain any graphical control elements. It relies upon OpenGL (1.4+) o ...

, a Wayland compositor using the Clutter toolkit * Clayton High School (disambiguation) *

Clayton's case ''Devaynes v Noble'' (1816) 35 ER 781, best known for the claim contained in ''Clayton's case'', created a rule, or more precisely common law presumption, in relation to the distribution of money from a bank account. The rule is based upon the d ...

, legal precedent *

Claytons Claytons is the brand name of a non-alcoholic, non-carbonated beverage coloured and packaged to resemble bottled whisky. It was the subject of a major marketing campaign in Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s, promoting it as "the d ...

, a non-alcoholic drink, formerly "Clayton Bros." * British Rail Class 17, a class of Diesel locomotive nicknamed "Claytons"