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Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada near Lake Erie. It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County . [ 1 ] Simcoe is at the junction of Highway 3 , at Highway 24 , due south of Brantford , and accessible to Hamilton by nearby Highway 6 .
A map of Ontario highlighting Simcoe County: Date: 16 October 2007: Source: Crop and trace of Image:Canada (geolocalisation).svg; trace of Image:Ontario subdivisions.PNG.
Simcoe County is traversed by many Provincial Highways; Ontario Highway 400 being the most significant. Other provincial highways in Simcoe County include: Highway 11, Highway 12, Highway 26, Highway 89 and Highway 93. Simcoe County also maintains an extensive series of County Roads, see List of numbered roads in Simcoe County.
A series of SVG overviews of Ontario counties and county-equivalents, generated using open data from Statistics Canada and the province of Ontario. Current to the 2016 census. Made in QGIS. Date: 13 February 2021: Source: Own work: Author: awmcphee
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Simcoe is the administrative centre of Norfolk County, with a population of 16,000 making it Norfolk's largest community. Simcoe is located at the junction of Highway 3, at Highway 24, due south of Brantford, Ontario, and accessible to Hamilton by nearby Highway 6. The town is northwest of Nanticoke in Haldimand County.
Construction of a new route between Simcoe and Brantford took place in the mid-1960s, bypassing the town of Waterford. In 1997 and 1998, the majority of Highway 24 – both south of Simcoe, as well as north of and through Cambridge – was transferred to the responsibility of the various counties and regions through which it travelled.
Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth-largest lake wholly in the province, after Lake Nipigon, Lac Seul, and Lake Nipissing. [6] At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century, the lake was called Ouentironk ("Beautiful Water") by the native Wendat/Ouendat (Huron) people.