Meaford
Meaford is a municipality in Grey County, Ontario, Canada located on Nottawasaga Bay, a sub-basin of Georgian Bay and Owen Sound Bay. The municipality's seal and motto reflect its heritage as a place of apple orchards, but in the 21st century the area has partly switched to weekend homes, seasonal homes, and lakeside tourism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bryce Edwards, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 4,910 residents
- Description: municipality in Grey County, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Meaford, ON” and “Meaford, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Owen Sound
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bighead River.
Bighead River
River
The Bighead River is a river in Grey County in southern Ontario, Canada, that flows from the Niagara Escarpment between the communities along Ontario Highway 10 of Arnott and Holland Centre in the township of Chatsworth to empty into Nottawasaga Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, at Meaford. Bighead River is situated 3½ km southwest of Meaford.
Meaford
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Grey County, Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.60693° or 44° 36′ 25″ northLongitude
-80.59165° or 80° 35′ 30″ westPopulation
4,910Elevation
202 metres (663 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA MFDOpen location code
86PXJC45+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 68679784OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Meaford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميافورد”
- Asturian: “Meaford”
- Breton: “Meaford”
- Corsican: “Meaford”
- Danish: “Meaford”
- Dutch: “Meaford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميافورد”
- French: “Meaford”
- German: “Meaford”
- Indonesian: “Meaford”
- Italian: “Meaford”
- Low German: “Meaford”
- Persian: “میفورد، انتاریو”
- Persian: “میفورد”
- Polish: “Georgian Highlands”
- Polish: “Meaford”
- Portuguese: “Meaford”
- Romanian: “Meaford”
- Russian: “Мифорд”
- Serbian: “Meaford”
- Serbian: “Miford”
- Serbian: “Мифорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meaford”
- Slovenian: “Meaford”
- Spanish: “Meaford (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Meaford”
- Swedish: “Meaford”
- Tahitian: “Meaford”
- Turkish: “Meaford”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Meaford Public Library and Meaford Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Meaford”. Photo: Bryce Edwards, CC BY 2.0.