Clintondale 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Clinton County Clinton County may refer to: *Counties named for George Clinton, first and third Governor of New York, and later the fourth Vice President of the United States: **Clinton County, New York ** Clinton County, Ohio *Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in southern Clinton County, in the west-central part of Porter Township. It is bordered to the southwest by Fishing Creek, across which is the CDP of Lamar. Fishing Creek is a northeast-flowing tributary of Bald Eagle Creek, part of the

West Branch Susquehanna River The West Branch Susquehanna River is one of the two principal branches, along with the North Branch, of the Susquehanna River in the Northeastern United States. The North Branch, which rises in upstate New York, is generally regarded as the ex ...

watershed.

Pennsylvania Route 64 Pennsylvania Route 64 (PA 64) is a north–south state route located in central Pennsylvania. At its southern terminus in Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, Spring Township, PA 64 continues north from where Pennsylvania Route 26 ...

forms the northwest boundary of Clintondale; it leads northeast to Mill Hall and southwest to

State College State College is a borough and home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a college town, home to the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University. State College is the largest designated borou ...

Interstate 80 Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the ori ...

passes just north of Clintondale, with access from Exit 173 (PA 64). I-80 leads east to the Milton area and west to Clearfield. Clintondale is in the northeast part of the

Nittany Valley Nittany Valley is an erosion, eroded anticline, anticlinal valley located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It is separated from the Bald Eagle Valley by Bald Eagle Mountain and from Penns Valley by Mount Nittany. The va ...

, with Big Mountain rising to the south and

Bald Eagle Mountain Bald Eagle Mountain – once known locally as Muncy Mountain – is a stratigraphic ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of central Pennsylvania, United States, running east of the Allegheny Front and northwest of Mount Nittany. It lies alo ...

to the north.

Demographics

References

Census-designated places in Clinton County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania {{ClintonCountyPA-geo-stub