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Cochranton is a borough in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, sitting on the county's southern boundary in the French Creek Valley at the confluence of French Creek and Sugar Creek.

The Cochranton area was settled in the first years of the 19th century, and the borough is made up of the original land grants of John Adams and Thomas Cochran, for whose family the village was named.

The original town plot was surveyed by Joseph Cochran, son of Thomas Cochran and the community's first school teacher.

Cochranton was chartered as a borough on April 5, 1855, by order of the Crawford County Court of Quarter Sessions, and James Greer was elected its first burgess nine days later.

Cochranton entered a golden era of growth in the mid-1870s, when its population topped 800 people.

The 2020 census counted about 1,120 residents in Cochranton, little changed from 1,136 in 2010; at the 2000 census its 1,148 residents lived in 478 households.

The borough covers about 1.2 square miles, all of it land.

Cochranton is served by the Crawford Central School District, which runs two high schools — Cochranton Junior/Senior High School for grades 7 through 12 stands in the borough, along with Cochranton Area Elementary School.

Cochranton remains a primarily farming community along U.S. Route 322 in the southeast corner of Crawford County, about nine miles south of Meadville, the county seat.