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Clarkston officially known as The City of the Village of Clarkston is a suburb of Flint, influenced heavily by the American car industries such as Buick, Pontiac, Ford, and GM. Clarkston has a temperate climate, with summer temperatures in the 80's, and winter temperatures in the 20's. It has medium precipitation, with usual heavy rain in August.
Clarkston was established in 1832, but organized and named ten years later in 1842. It was named after prominent settlers Jeremiah and Nelson Clark, who did much of the work to establish Clarkston and it's government.
Henry Ford paid to have the underground pipe system in the town.
The 1990 Census showed that there were 962 residents.
It is a part of Independence Township, in Oakland County.
