Keating, Pennsylvania

Keating (pronounced "Kate-ing") is an unincorporated community in East Keating Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It is located at the confluence of Sinnemahoning Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River.

Although Keating is currently home to only several families and hunting camps, it was once a hub of activity, attracting lumbermen, miners, hunters, river pilots, runaway slaves, mountain whites, back woodsmen and Irish, German and Hungarian immigrants who came to work on the railroad, in the lumber camps or mines.

The community was named for Captain John Keating, of the Ceres Land Company, which purchased 300,000 acres (1,200 km²) (1,200 km²) of land in Northwestern Pennsylvania, comprising parts of McKean and Potter counties.

Keating was never a municipality, but very early on it had a post office. The postal address was Nasby, since the preferred name was already taken by another town in Pennsylvania.

Municipalities and communities of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Lock Haven

City	Lock Haven

Boroughs	Avis Beech Creek Flemington Loganton Mill Hall Renovo South Renovo

Townships	Allison Bald Eagle Beech Creek Castanea Chapman Colebrook Crawford Dunnstable East Keating Gallagher Greene Grugan Lamar Leidy Logan Noyes Pine Creek Porter Wayne West Keating Woodward

CDPs	Castanea Dunnstown Lamar McElhattan Rauchtown‡ Rote

Unincorporated communities	Farrandsville Keating Westport Woolrich

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county

Coordinates: 41°15′32″N 77°54′15″W / 41.25889°N 77.90417°W / 41.25889; -77.90417

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