CLIFTON FORGE, a city of western Virginia, U.S.A., amid the superb scenery of the Allegheny mountains, on the Jackson river; in Allegheny county, but administratively independent of it. It is on Federal highway 6o, and is served by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The population in 1920 was 6,164, of whom i,000 were negroes; in 193o, including the suburbs of Selma, Iron Gate, and Low Moor, it was 6,839 by the Federal census. The city has railroad : epair shops, is a distributing point for coal from the near-by fields, and is headquarters of the western division of the Virginia Public Service company. Clifton Forge, formerly called Williamson, was incorporated in 1884. The gap formed here by the river has been used for travel across the mountains ever since the days of the Indians.