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Clairton is a city on the Monongahela River in Allegheny County that was incorporated as a borough on April 12, 1903, and became a third-class city on January 1, 1922.

Clairton is home to U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke manufacturing facility in North America, built after Carnegie Steel acquired the riverfront tract just after 1900.

Clairton's steel and coke plants employed some 7,200 union steelworkers during their peak years in the 1940s.

Clairton's population peaked at 19,652 in the 1950 census and had fallen to 6,181 by the 2020 census, when the city counted 2,868 households.

Clairton is nicknamed the 'City of Prayer.'

Clairton was the setting for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, although none of the movie was actually filmed there.

Clairton was designated a financially distressed municipality under Pennsylvania's Act 47 in 1988 and did not exit that status until November 2015.

Clairton High School's football team has earned national prominence far beyond what the small city's size would suggest.

The Montour Trail, a rail-trail running to Coraopolis, begins in Clairton.

NFL wide receiver Tyler Boyd, who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, is from Clairton.