St. Clairsville

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St. Clairsville, Pennsylvania

St. Clairsville is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 78 at the 2010 census.

St. Clairsville was named after Major-General Arthur St. Clair, Revolutionary War veteran and Northwest Territory governor.

Geography

St. Clairsville is located in northern Bedford County at 40°9′22″N 78°30′38″W / 40.15611°N 78.51056°W / 40.15611; -78.51056 (40.155985, -78.510515). It lies at the base of Evitts Mountain, which rises to the east.

The Interstate 99/U.S. 220 freeway passes just to the east of the borough, with access from Exit 7. Bedford, the county seat, is 11 miles (18 km) to the south, and Altoona is 29 miles (47 km) to the north. US-220's former alignment, Pennsylvania Route 869, passes just to the west of St. Clairsville, leading south to I-99's Exit 7 and north 1.0 mile (1.6 km) to Osterburg.

According to the United States Census Bureau, St. Clairsville has a total area of 0.03 square miles (0.08 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

St. Clairsville, Ohio

St. Clairsville is a city in and the county seat of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. Nicknamed "Paradise on the Hill", it is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,184 at the 2010 census.

History

The seat of justice of Belmont County was originally known as Newellstown, and under the latter name was laid out in the late 1790s by David Newell. The name of the settlement was soon changed to St. Clairsville in honor of Northwest Territory Governor and Revolutionary War Major-General Arthur St. Clair.

In 1833, St. Clairsville contained a brick courthouse and jail, five houses of worship, seventeen or eighteen mercantile stores, several groceries, a drug store, a book store, five taverns, three printing offices, four or five physicians, and fourteen or fifteen lawyers, and a large number of mechanics' shops. CBS's well known Charles Kuralt's program..."On the Road With Charles Kuralt" drove through Saint Clairsville for a TV segment, In the 1960s.