This page lists all of the
numbered county road
A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...
s in
Wellington County, Ontario
Wellington County is a county located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and is part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The County, made up of two towns and five townships, is predominantly rural in nature. However many of the residents in the ...
,
Canada
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.
In the late 1990s, when the provincial government
downloaded
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many portions of Ontario highways to the municipalities, Wellington County became responsible for portions of former highways
9,
23,
24 and
25. These are now named 109, 123, 124 and 125 respectively. Currently, five provincial highways run through
Wellington County. These are highways
6,
7,
9,
23, and
89.
Road numbers in Wellington County mainly follow a system in which the numbers correspond to the township in which the road has its county terminus. Roads 1-6 are in
Minto
Minto may refer to:
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*Mount Minto (Antarctica)
Australia
*Minto, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Minto railway station
* Minto County, Western Australia
* Parish of Minto, New South Wales
Canada
* Minto City, British C ...
; 7-12 in
Mapleton Mapleton may refer to:
Places Australia
* Mapleton, Queensland, a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region
Canada
* Mapleton, New Brunswick, a rural community in Kings County
* Mapleton, Moncton, New Brunswick, a neighborhood
* Maple ...
; 14-16 in
Wellington North; 17-21 in
Centre Wellington
Centre Wellington is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, located in Wellington County. The primary communities are Elora and Fergus.
The area is agricultural but also includes industries such as manufacturing. In the Canada 2016 Cens ...
; 22-26 in
Erin
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; 27-29 in former
Eramosa Township (now a part of
Guelph-Eramosa); and 30-41 in former
Guelph Township (also now a part of
Guelph-Eramosa) and
Puslinch, many of which are roads that originate in the
City of Guelph. Highways 86 and 87 are named for the county road of the same name that continue past the boundaries of
Waterloo Region
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and
Huron County respectively. Highway 46 is the former routing of
Highway 6
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International
* Asian Highway 6
* European route E6
* European route E006
Albania
* National Road SH6
Argentina
* Buenos Aires Provincial Route 6
Australia New ...
before the highway was rerouted along the
Hanlon Parkway. All other roads were numbered after this system was put into place, and are mostly very short routes connecting villages or other points of interest to the main county road system.
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Wellington
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Roads in Wellington County, Ontario