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Darby's Harbour
Darby's Harbour is a locality (settlement), locality and former settlement located southwest of Swift Current, Newfoundland and Labrador, Swift Current in Paradise Sound, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. It had a post office in 1940. The 1935 population was 21, but by 1990 it was uninhabited. See also *List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador References {{coord, 47, 28, 10, N, 54, 32, 29, W, display=title Ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locality (settlement)
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements may include hamlets, villages, towns and cities. A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled, or first settled by particular people. In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". A settlement conventionally includes its constructed facilities such as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woods, wind and water mills, manor houses, moats and churches. History The earliest geographical evidence of a human settlement was Jebel Irhoud, where early modern human remains of eight individuals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
