Townships within the Hundred of Clinton are Port Arthur, Port Clinton and Clinton Centre.
In 1869 the Wastelands Amendment Act, or as it was more popularly known - The Strangways Act, was passed, and this took the land form the squatters, who had leased it for a nominal amount, and made it available for farmers for agricultural purposes.
The land was to be surveyed into Hundreds and each Hundred was to contain at least a hundred square miles and to have a town.
The Hundred of Clinton was proclaimed in 1862.
