Hurkett is a
dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in the
Unorganized part of
Thunder Bay District
Thunder Bay District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district seat is Thunder Bay.
In 2016, the population was 146,048. The land area is ; the population density was . Most of ...
in
northwestern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is on Black Bay on the north shore of
Lake Superior
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in
geographic
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Stirling Township,
and is on
Ontario Highway 582
This is a list of secondary highways in Thunder Bay District, most of which serve as logging roads or provide access to the isolated and sparsely populated areas in the Thunder Bay District of northern Ontario.
Highway 527
Secondary Highway 52 ...
, a short spur off
Ontario Highway 17
King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba boundary, west of Kenora, and the m ...
. Hurkett is a
designated place
A designated place (DPL) is a type of community or settlement identified by Statistics Canada that does not meet the criteria used to define municipalities or population centres. DPLs are delineated every 5 years for the Canadian census as the sta ...
served by a
local services board A local services board (LSB) is an organization in the Canadian province of Ontario that is contracted by the Government of Ontario to provide municipal-level services in a community that is not part of an incorporated municipality.
Most local ser ...
,
and has a population of 236.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Hurkett had a population of 94 living in 51 of its 75 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 214. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
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List of unincorporated communities in Ontario
The following is a list of unincorporated and informal communities in the province of Ontario, Canada. These communities are not independent communities, these are usually a part of a township for the district, within a county. In non-urban areas, ...
References
Other map sources:
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Communities in Thunder Bay District
Designated places in Ontario
Local services boards in Ontario
Populated places on Lake Superior in Canada
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