Huron County is a census division

Census division

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 and county of the province of Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located on the southeast shore of its namesake, Lake Huron

Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, it comprises the larger portion of Lake Michigan-Huron. It is bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States...

, in the southwest

Southwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario is a subregion of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. It extends north to south from the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron to the Lake Erie shoreline, and east to south-west roughly from Guelph to Windsor. The region had a population...

 part of the province. The county seat is Goderich

Goderich, Ontario

Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...

, also the county's largest settlement.

Constituent municipalities

• Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, Township of
• Bluewater
  Bluewater, Ontario
  The Municipality of Bluewater is located in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 when the Ontario Government instituted the amalgamation of municipalities throughout the province. Specifically, the former townships of Hay and Stanley were merged with the villages of Bayfield,...
  
  , Municipality of
• Central Huron
  Central Huron, Ontario
  Central Huron is a township in western Ontario, Canada, in Huron County. It is situated on Lake Huron between the Maitland River and the Bayfield River....
  
  , Municipality of
• Goderich
  Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...
  
  , Town of
• Howick
  Howick, Ontario
  The Township of Howick is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the northeast corner of Huron County near the Bruce County border, east of Wingham....
  
  , Township of
• Huron East
  Huron East, Ontario
  The Municipality of Huron East is located in Huron County, Ontario. It was formed in 2001 as an amalgamation of the former Grey, McKillop and Tuckersmith townships with the town of Seaforth and village of Brussels due to an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of...
  
  , Municipality of
• Morris-Turnberry
  Morris-Turnberry, Ontario
  The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the north portion of Huron County, near the Bruce County border, southeast of Wingham....
  
  , Municipality of
• North Huron
  North Huron, Ontario
  The Township of North Huron is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 when the Ontario government imposed amalgamation on municipalities throughout the provinces...
  
  , Municipality of

The boundaries of the county's municipalities have been in effect since 2001, after the Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

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 provincial government imposed mergers throughout the province.

Communities

• Amberley (border with Bruce County
  Bruce County, Ontario
  Bruce County is a county in western Ontario, Canada, and includes the Bruce Peninsula. As of 2006, the population was 65,349. The area was . The county seat is Walkerton, Ontario. It is located at ....
  
  )
• Auburn
• Bayfield
  Bayfield, Ontario
  Bayfield, is a community located within the Municipality of Bluewater, Ontario, Canada on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, situated at the mouth of Bayfield River....
  
  
• Belgrave
• Belmore (border with Bruce County
  Bruce County, Ontario
  Bruce County is a county in western Ontario, Canada, and includes the Bruce Peninsula. As of 2006, the population was 65,349. The area was . The county seat is Walkerton, Ontario. It is located at ....
  
  )
• Benmiller
  Benmiller, Ontario
  Benmiller, Ontario is a community located in the northwestern part of Huron County in Ontario, Canada, and the place where the Benmiller Blanket was made....
  
  
• Bluevale
• Blyth
  Blyth, Ontario
  Blyth is a community in the municipality of North Huron, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is located southwest of the town of Wingham on Huron Road 4 and geographically south of the town of Lucknow....
  
  
• Brucefield
• Brussels
  Brussels, Ontario
  Brussels is a community in Huron County, Ontario, Canada, located within the municipality of Huron East. It was originally called Ainleyville. The name was changed in 1872 when a branch line of the Grand Trunk Railway from Guelph came through the town...
  
  
• Carlow
• Centralia (border with Middlesex County
  Middlesex County, Ontario
  Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...
  
  )
• Clinton
  Clinton, Ontario
  Clinton is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the municipality of Central Huron. Established in 1831, Clinton first began when Jonas Gibbings, Peter and Stephen Vanderburg cleared out a small area to start. Clinton started to grow in 1844 when William Rattenbury laid out...
  
  
• Corbett (border with Middlesex County
  Middlesex County, Ontario
  Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...
  
  )
• Crediton
• Dashwood
  Dashwood, Ontario
  Dashwood is a small, primarily residential, community in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The former police village is located at the intersection of Bronson Line and Dashwood Road, on the boundary between the Municipality of Bluewater and the Municipality of South Huron...
  
  
• Drysdale
• Dungannon
• Egmondville
  Egmondville, Ontario
  Egmondville is an historic former village now part of the community of Seaforth in the municipality of Huron East, in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. The community was founded in 1845 by Constant Van Egmond, the eldest son of Anthony Van Egmond and named in honour of his father.-Sources:Lee, Robert...
  
  
• Ethel
  Ethel, Ontario
  Ethel is a hamlet located in northern Huron County, Ontario, Canada and has a population of almost two hundred. It is in the municipality of Huron East in Grey Township. Ethel is home to the Grey Township Fire Department, the Ethel Community Hall, Ethel United Church, Ethel Mennonite Church and the...
  
  
• Exeter
  Exeter, Ontario
  Exeter is a Canadian community in the municipality of South Huron, in the southern portion of Huron County, Ontario, located approximately 50 kilometres north of London. The community proclaims itself the "Home of the White Squirrel", owing to the presence of the unusually-coloured mammals...
  
  
• Goderich
  Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...
  
  
• Gorrie
• Harpurhey
• Hensall
  Hensall, Ontario
  Hensall is a community in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. Firmly rooted in the heart of Huron County's rich agricultural land, Hensall is home to three large processing facilities: Thompsons Limited, Hensall Co-op and Cook's Division of Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd...
  
  
• Holmesville
  Holmesville, Ontario
  Holmesville is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the township of Central Huron, 14 kilometres southeast of Goderich. Founded in 1832 by two Irish Canadian immigrants named Samuel and John Holmes, the community was first called Holmes Hill and Holmes Villa before receiving its...
  
  
• Huron Park
• Kinburn
• Kingsbridge
  Kingsbridge, Ontario
  Kingsbridge, Ontario is a small rural community in southwestern Ontario. It is approximately 22 kilometers north of Goderich on the Bluewater Highway where it intersects with Kingsbridge Line. The area around Kingsbridge was settled in 1839 by Irish immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland...
  
  
• Kintail
• Kippen
• Kirkton (border with Perth County
  Perth County, Ontario
  Perth County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford and is located in Southwestern Ontario, west of Toronto. It encompasses , 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land...
  
  )
• Lakelet
• Leadbury
• Londesborough
• Molesworth
  Molesworth, Ontario
  Molesworth is a small community located in the town of Huron East in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Molesworth was founded in 1852 by John Mitchell and his family, who operated a general store which served the influx of settlers to the area...
  
   (border with Perth County
  Perth County, Ontario
  Perth County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford and is located in Southwestern Ontario, west of Toronto. It encompasses , 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land...
  
  )
• Mount Carmel
  Mount Carmel, Middlesex County, Ontario
  Mount Carmel is a primarily residential hamletlocated in southwestern Ontario, Canada at the intersection of Mount Carmel Drive, Bronson Line and Lieury Road, on the boundary between the municipality of North Middlesex and the municipality of South Huron...
  
   (border with Middlesex County
  Middlesex County, Ontario
  Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...
  
  )
• Nile
• Port Albert
• St. Augustine
  St. Augustine, Ontario
  St. Augustine is a community in Ontario.St. Augustine is near Belfast, Ontario, and Lucknow, Ontario...
  
  
• St. Columban (border with Perth County
  Perth County, Ontario
  Perth County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford and is located in Southwestern Ontario, west of Toronto. It encompasses , 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land...
  
  )
• St. Joseph
• Saltford
  Saltford, Ontario
  Saltford is a small unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada located at the intersection of Highway 21 and Saltford Road, on the north bank of the Maitland River in the township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh just north of Goderich. In early 1866, local entrepreneur Samuel Platt discovered the...
  
  
• Seaforth
  Seaforth, Ontario
  Seaforth is a Southern Ontario community in the municipality of Huron East, in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Shipka
• Summerhill
• Vanastra
  Vanastra, Ontario
  Vanastra, Ontario is located in the municipality of Huron East in Huron County, three kilometres south of Clinton, Ontario.It is located on the property of CFB Clinton, a former Canadian Forces Base and prior to 1968, a Royal Canadian Air Force station used for radar training.The present name...
  
  
• Varna
• Walton
  Walton, Ontario
  Walton is a Southwestern Ontario hamlet in the municipality of Huron East, in Huron County, Ontario, CanadaLocated at the intersection of Huron County Rds 12 & 25, at the head of the South Maitland River 45 km east of Goderich.-History:...
  
  
• Whitechurch
  Whitechurch, Ontario
  Whitechurch, Ontario is a village near Lucknow, Ontario, located along the border of Huron and Bruce County. Whitechurch is an entirely residential community, with the exception of Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Whitechurch Community Hall and CMG Building Solutions...
  
   (border with Bruce County
  Bruce County, Ontario
  Bruce County is a county in western Ontario, Canada, and includes the Bruce Peninsula. As of 2006, the population was 65,349. The area was . The county seat is Walkerton, Ontario. It is located at ....
  
  )
• Wingham
  Wingham, Ontario
  Wingham is a community located in the municipality of North Huron, Ontario, Canada, which is located in Huron County...
  
  
• Winthrop
  Winthrop, Ontario
  Winthrop is a very small village located on the southeastern part of Huron County, Ontario, Canada, where two county roads meet. It is within the Municipality of Huron East...
  
  
• Whalen Corners (border with Perth
  Perth County, Ontario
  Perth County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford and is located in Southwestern Ontario, west of Toronto. It encompasses , 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land...
  
   and Middlesex
  Middlesex County, Ontario
  Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...
  
   Counties)
• Woodham (border with Perth County
  Perth County, Ontario
  Perth County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford and is located in Southwestern Ontario, west of Toronto. It encompasses , 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land...
  
  )
• Wroxeter
  Wroxeter, Ontario
  Wroxeter, Ontario is a village in Howick Township. The first settlers in Wroxeter were the Gibson Brothers, Thomas and Robert in the mid-19th century. Back in the 19th century, Wroxeter had five general stores, five hotels, two schools , a library, a woolen mill, and a grist mill...
  
  
• Zurich
  Zurich, Ontario
  Zurich, Ontario is a community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in the Municipality of Bluewater in the County of Huron, about 6 km inland from Lake Huron, on Ontario's West Coast. Zurich was founded in 1856 and is known for its Swiss heritage, reflected in some of the architecture.The fourth...
  
  

Former Communities

• Donnybrook
  Donnybrook, Ontario
  Donnybrook was a village in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario.- History :Donnybrook was founded in the 1860s on the corner of what are now Huron County Road 22 and the Glen's Hill Road....
  
  
• Mafeking
  Mafeking, Ontario
  Mafeking was a small hamlet in Southwestern Ontario that is now a dispersed rural community. Located at the intersection of Tower Line Road and the 9th Concession of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh it is approximately 9 km from Lucknow and 31.5 km from Goderich.At its peak population in 1901, Mafeking...
  
  
• McGaw
  McGaw, Ontario
  McGaw is a ghost town in Huron County near Carlow, Ontario.McGaw used to have an abandoned Canadian Pacific Railway line from Goderich to Hamilton/Guelph Junction that went through it; the last train was in December 1988. In McGaw, there used to be a station and a siding...
  
  
• Sodom
  Sodom, Ontario
  Sodom, Ontario was a former small logging industry-based community that existed in the last quarter of the 19th and first half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Spidertown
  Spidertown, Ontario
  Spidertown was a small, agricultural supply and services based community in southwestern Ontario, Canada that existed in the last half of the 19th and the early 20th century...
  
    (border with Middlesex County
  Middlesex County, Ontario
  Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...
  
  )

External links

• Huron County government site
• Huron County Tourism website
• Blyth Festival Theatre site
• Huron County's Historic Bridges
• Grand Bend Strip community newspaper - serving south Huron County