Lamar is a
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 ...
in
Porter Township in southern
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. As of the
2010 census the population was 562.
The community is located along
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 ...
in southern Clinton County and is bordered on the west by
Nittany in
Walker Township,
Centre County. PA 64 leads northeast to Exit 173 on
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 ...
and to
Lock Haven, the Clinton County seat, and southwest through Nittany 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 ...
.
The community is named for Revolutionary War Major Marien Lamar, who was killed in the
Battle of Paoli
The Battle of Paoli, also known as the Battle of Paoli Tavern or the Paoli Massacre, was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 20, 1777, in the area surrounding present-day Malvern, Pennsylva ...
, as stated in the "History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania" by John Blair Linn. Major Lamar was born in Maryland.
Demographics
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Census-designated places in Clinton County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
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