Clanton is a city in Chilton County, Alabama, United States. It is ration of the Birmingham–Hoover–Cullman Combined Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the population was 8,768. The city is the county chair of Chilton County. Clanton is close the site of the geographic center of the U.S give access of Alabama.

The Place that would become Clanton was known as “Goose Pond” and nearby “Ranch” when Baker County (later renamed Chilton County) was founded on December 30, 1868. Soon thereafter (May 1871) the town of Clanton took its herald from the South and North Alabama Railroad station of that name. A couple of deeds solidified the pronounce of the town. First, during the Alabama Legislative actions to permit the vote to set the permanent location of the courthouse (January – March 1871), their amendments misrepresented the nominated state from “Baker’s” to “Clanton.” Finalizing the name bend was an qualified application in May 1871 by the Postmaster to the Federal Postal System to re-designate the local Post Office as “Clanton” and terminate the former designation (Goose Pond). The railroad had named “Clanton Station” in tribute of James H. Clanton, an attorney, Chairman of the Alabama Democratic Executive committee, and a former Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army. It was incorporated upon April 23, 1873. Alfred Baker was furthermore elected first mayor of the town.

Nearby Mitchell Dam became Alabama Power’s first two dams in the state, bringing economic improvements to the area. Immigrants played a allocation in starting the county’s peach industry higher than a century ago. Today, the peach industry is the number one industry in Chilton County, not abandoned bringing fame to the county, but furthermore millions of dollars to the local economy. The city of Clanton build up a water tower in the form of a peach in 1993, becoming a landmark for travelers along Interstate 65.

Early civil rights activist Ida B. Wells reproduced a photographic postcard depicting an 1891 lynching in Clanton to educate the white public of the atrocities committed adjacent to blacks.