Kings | |
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![]() Location within New Brunswick | |
Country | Canada |
Province | New Brunswick |
Established | 1785 |
Electoral Districts Federal | Fundy Royal / New Brunswick Southwest |
Area | |
• Land | 3,482.35 km2 (1,344.54 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 71,184 |
• Density | 20.4/km2 (53/sq mi) |
• Change 2011-2016 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 30,283 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Area code | 506 |
Kings County is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Its historical shire town is Hampton and it was named as an expression of loyalty to the British Crown.[2] Both the Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers pass through the county.
Approximately half of the Kings County population of 68,941 (as of 2016)[3] lives in suburbs of the nearby city of Saint John.
There are seven municipalities within Kings County (listed by 2016 population):[4]
Official name | Designation | Area km2 | Population | Parish |
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Quispamsis | Town | 57.21 | 18,245 | Rothesay |
Rothesay | Town | 34.72 | 11,659 | Rothesay |
Grand Bay-Westfield | Town | 59.78 | 4,964 | Westfield |
Hampton | Town | 21.09 | 4,289 | Hampton |
Sussex | Town | 8.95 | 4,282 | Sussex |
Sussex Corner | Village | 9.34 | 1,461 | Sussex |
Norton | Village | 75.35 | 1,382 | Norton |
The county is subdivided into fifteen parishes (listed by 2016 population):[4]
Official name | Area km2 | Population | Municipalities | Unincorporated communities |
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Studholm | 449.37 | 3,522 | Berwick / Carsonville / Centreville / Collina / Fox Hill / Gibbon / Gibbon Mountain / Head of Millstream / Jordan Mountain / Kierstead Mountain / Kings / Lower Millstream / Marrtown / McGregor Brook / Mount Hebron / Mount Middleton / Mount Pisgah / Newtown / Parleeville / Pearsonville / Pleasant Ridge / Plumweseep / Prescott Hill / Roachville / Sharps Hill / Smiths Creek / Snider Mountain / Studholm / Summerfield / Thompson Corner | |
Kingston | 200.69 | 2,913 | Bedford / Centreton / Chapel Grove / Clifton Royal / East Riverside-Kinghurst / Elmhurst / Erbs Cove / Grays Mills / Grey Mills / Kingston / Kingston Corner / Kingston Creek / Long Reach / Lower Kingston / Moss Glen / Perry Point / Renforth / Shampers / The Cedars / Waltons Lake / Whitehead / Whites Mills | |
Hampton | 121.26 | 2,809 | Hampton (town) | Bonney Road / Damascus / Darlings Island / French Village / Hampton / Lakeside / Mount Prospect / Nauwigewauk / Smithtown / Titusville |
Sussex | 244.02 | 2,516 | Sussex (town) Sussex Corner (village) |
Apohaqui / Campbell Settlement / Cassidy Lake / Drurys Cove / Dutch Valley / Erb Settlement / Hazel Hill / Jeffries Corner / Lisson Settlement / Lower Cove / Markhamville / McCain Settlement / Millbrook / New Line Road / Ratter Corner / Riverbank / Rockville / Southfield / Upper Wards Creek / Vinegar Hill / Wards Creek |
Westfield | 295.70 | 1,962 | Grand Bay-Westfield (town) | Bayswater / Carters Point / Cheyne Settlement / Days Landing / Hardings Point / Keatings Corner / Lands End / Milkish / Morrisdale / Nerepis / Public Landing / Sand Point / Summerville / Woodmans Point |
Springfield | 248.54 | 1,525 | Belleisle Creek / Bull Moose Hill / East Scotch Settlement / Elm Brook / Hatfield Point / Irish Settlement / Joliffs Brook / Keirsteadville / Long Point / Lower Midland / Midland / Northrups Corner / Pascobac / Searsville / Springfield / Stewarton / The Grant / Upper Belleisle / Upper Midland / West Scotch Settlement | |
Cardwell | 311.90 | 1,353 | Anagance / Buckley Settlement / Cardwell / Crockets Corner / Dunsinane / Five Points / Harper Settlement / Lindys / McCully / Mechanic Settlement / Penobsquis / Picadilly / Portage Vale / South Branch / Springdale / Upper Goshen | |
Norton | 144.76 | 1,301 | Norton (village) | Bloomfield / Central Norton / Guthrie Road / Ketchum Road / Passekeag / Woodpecker Hall |
Upham | 189.22 | 1,269 | Barnesville / Bloomfield Ridge / Clover Hill / Hanford Brook / Salina / Salt Springs / Upham / Upper Salt Springs / Upperton | |
Havelock | 349.23 | 1,061 | Anagance Ridge / Canaan Road / Cornhill / Cornhill East / Cosman Settlement / Creek Road / Dubee Settlement / Havelock / Knightville / Lower Ridge / Mannhurst / Perry Settlement / Salem / Samp Hill / Springhill / Whites Mountain | |
Greenwich | 114.46 | 1,058 | Browns Corner / Browns Flat / Central Greenwich / Cochrane Corner / Days Corner / Evandale / Glenwood / Greenwich Hill / Johnson Croft / Lynch Corner / Oak Point / Upper Greenwich / Victoria Beach | |
Waterford | 221.27 | 469 | Cedar Camp / Chambers Settlement / Donegal / Parlee Brook / Urney / Walker Settlement / Waterford | |
Kars | 75.84 | 325 | Beulah / Earle Wharf / Kars / Lower Kars / Tennants Cove | |
Rothesay | 7.26 | 325 | Quispamsis (town) Rothesay (town) |
Barsa / Bradley Lake / East Riverside-Kinghurst / Fairvale / Golden Grove / Hillhurst / Hunter Lake-Upper Hunter Lake Road / Kennebecasis Park / Renforth / Torryburn / Wells |
Hammond | 244.45 | 251 | Devine Corner / Hammond / Hammondvale / Hilldale / Hillsdale / Londonderry / Poodiac |
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kings County had a population of 71,184 living in 28,464 of its 30,283 total private dwellings, a change of 3.3% from its 2016 population of 68,941. With a land area of 3,482.35 km2 (1,344.54 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.4/km2 (52.9/sq mi) in 2021.[5]
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See also: List of historic places in Kings County, New Brunswick |
Although not everyone in this list was born in Kings County, they all live or have lived in Kings County and have had significant connections to the communities.
Name | Community | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
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Winston Bronnum | Sussex | Sculptor | 1929 | 1991 | |
Chris Cummings | Norton | Country music singer | 1975 | ||
John Peters Humphrey | Hampton | Lawyer | 1905 | 1995 | diplomat, scholar and principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Anna Ruth Lang | Nauwigewauk | Recipient of the Canadian Cross of Valour (1982) | |||
Hugh J. McCormick | Kennebecasis Island | Speed Skater | 1854 | 1910 | World professional speed skater 1890-1892 |
George McCready Price | Havelock | Creationist | 1870 | 1963 | |
Anna McNulty | Grand Bay-Westfield | YouTuber | 2002 |