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McElhattan is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wayne Township in southern Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 598. The community is located in eastern Clinton County and is bordered to the northwest by the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and to the southeast by U.S. Route 220, a four-lane freeway. The southwestern part of the CDP includes the area known as Youngdale. US 220 leads west 6 miles (10 km) to the city of Lock Haven, the Clinton County seat, and northeast 7 miles (11 km) to the borough of Jersey Shore. Bridge Road crosses the West Branch, connecting McElhattan with Dunnstable Township to the northwest.
Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 598 to 1,224 (+105%).
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The West Branch camp ground was inundated and most of the tents, tabernacle, boarding houses and restaurant buildings near the mouth of the stream were either carried away or badly wrecked. About a mile of the double track of the Philadelphia & Brie railroad at McElhattan stream was swept away. The mill ponds of Messr.'*. Swartz and Nowland, above Woolrich, gave way under the pressure of water, and swept trees, lumber and bridges down the stream, destroying everything. In many places the course of
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