Kent County, Ontario

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Kent County, Ontario

The county was created in 1792 and named by John Graves Simcoe in honour of the English County . The county is in an Alluvial Plain between Lake St. Clair , and Lake Erie , watered by two Navigable Stream s, the Thames River and the Sydenham River .

On January 1 , 1998 , the county, its townships, towns, and Chatham were amalgamated into the single-tier city of Chatham-Kent .

ORIGINAL TOWNSHIPS

, Thamesville )

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Harwich . area . Surveyed in 1794 and named from the English port at the mouth of the Thames. ( Blenheim , Erieau , Erie Beach , Shrewsbury )

, Ridgetown )

Orford , area, . Surveyed in 1794 and named from the English port of Orford in Suffolk. . Community centre. ( Highgate )

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, Tilbury )

Zone , area . Separated form Oxford in 1821 to provide a special organizational district, "the zone", for the Indians of the Moravian Mission on the Thames. Community Center. ( Bothwell )

ORIGINAL TOWNS

Chatham (County Seat, largest town in the county, at around 54,000).

Blenheim

Dresden

Bothwell

Highgate

Ridgetown

Tilbury

Thamesville

Wallaceburg

Wheatley

SEE ALSO

List Of Ontario Census Divisions .

EXTERNAL LINKS

1951 map of Kent County