Kent County, Ontario

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Kent County area 5,800 acres (23 km²) is a historic county in the Canadian province of 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 streams, 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.

1 Original Townships
2 Original Towns
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Original Townships

[edit] Camden

Area 40,625 acres (164 km²). Surveyed in 1794 and named from the Earl of Camden. Community centres: (Dresden, Thamesville)

[edit] Chatham

Area 83,964 acres (340 km²) Surveyed in 1794. Community centres: City of Chatham and (Wallaceburg)

[edit] Dover

Area 68,617 acres (278 km²). Dover Township was named after Dover, England. It was surveyed in 1794 and incorporated in 1850. Within the boundaries of Dover along the Chenal Ecarte of the river St. Clair is the site of Lord Selkirk's Baldoon Settlement, established in 1803. Communities include Mitchell's Bay and Pain Court

[edit] Harwich

Area 88,349 acres (358 km²). Surveyed in 1794 and named from the English port at the mouth of the Thames. (Blenheim, Erieau, Erie Beach, Shrewsbury)

[edit] Howard

Area 58,607 acres (237 km²). Surveyed in 1794 and named after Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, father-in-law of Sir Guy Carleton. Community centres: (Morpeth, Ridgetown)

[edit] Orford

Area, 49,677 acres (201 km²). Surveyed in 1794 and named from the English port of Orford in Suffolk. Community centre. (Highgate)

[edit] Raleigh

Area 72,100 acres (292 km²). Surveyed in 1794. Likely named for Walter Raleigh. Community centres: (Charing Cross)

[edit] Romney

Area 26,193 acres (106 km²), Surveyed in 1794. Named form the Kentish port in England. Community centres: (Wheatley)

[edit] Tilbury East

Area 54,116 acres (219 km²). Surveyed in 1794, named form the English Tilbury fort in Essex. Community Centres: (Merlin, Tilbury)

[edit] Zone

Area 27,154 acres (110 km²). 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)