Zephyr, Ontario
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Zephyr is a small community located northwest of Uxbridge. Zephyr is located north of the Oak Ridges Moraine and is accessed with roads linking to Uxbridge and Udora and linking Mount Albert Road and to Oakwood and Lindsay. Other roads include Ravenshoe Road to located about 4 km the north and Lake Ridge Road to the east and Davis Drive further south. The downtown streets includes John and Dafoe Streets. The nearest superhighway is to the west located about 28 km east. Zephyr is located about 8 km north of Uxbridge, SW of Udora, SW of Beaverton, W of Sunderland and east of Newmarket and Mount Albert. The population has not changed. The nearest beaches is in the southern shoreline of Lake Simcoe to the north and all creeks and streams flows to Lake Simcoe. The nearest train station is in Uxbridge and Simcoe with the Toronto and Sudbury line. The population growth around Zephyr since the 1960s has been slow.
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Nearest places
- Udora, northeast
- Sunderland, east
- Uxbridge, east
- Mount Albert, west
Geography and Information
- Population: about 400 to 500
- Area: -
- density: -
- Location:
- Latitude: about 44.125 N
- Longitude: about 79.6 W
- Area code: +1-905
- Name of inhabitants: Zephyrean or Zephyrian sing., -s pl.
- Postal code: -
Forests filled with mainly pine trees with a couple of hills lie to the south, the west, the east and to the north and dominate most of Zephyr. Farmlands cover the rest of the land. Several streams that are not major are around Zephyr. Some homes are sporadically around Zephyr but lower than the south.
Other
Zephyr has a school, a church, a plaza and banks.
External links
- Map and aerial photos
- Street map from Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=44.15&decimal&latitude=-79.6&longitude=&zoom=6), MapPoint (http://maps.msn.com/map.aspx?&lats1=44.15&lons1=-79.6&alts1=35) or Google (http://maps.google.com/maps?||=444.15,-79.6)
- Aerial photograph from Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=14&lon=43.6&lat=-79.6&w=750&h=500) or Google (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.15,-79.6&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k)
- Coordinates: Template:Coor dms