Cotton Town 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

Blair County Blair County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Holli ...

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.

Geography

The CDP is in southern Blair County, in the southeastern part of Greenfield Township. It is in the valley of Smoky Run, at the intersection of Cottontown/Lower Claar Road with Pine Hollow/Schellsburg Road. It is southwest of Claysburg via Pine Hollow Road. Altoona is to the north. Smoky Run is a southeastward-flowing tributary of Beaverdam Creek, one of the headwaters of the Frankstown Branch of the

Juniata River The Juniata River () is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed August 8, 2011 in central Pennsylvania. The river is ...

, part of the

Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River ( ; Unami language, Lenape: ) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeastern United States, Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvani ...

watershed.

Demographics

Education

It is in the Claysburg-Kimmel School District.
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