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Stouffville, OntarioStouffville is the primary urban area within the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario. It is centered at the intersection of Ninth Line (County Road 69) and Main Street (County Road 14). Roads - East to West:
- Stouffville Road
- Vandorf Sideroad (partial)
- Bloomington Road (east of Highway 48, then Highway 47)
- North to South:
- Kennedy Road
- McCowan Road
- Road and highway linking Markham and Beaverton (Highway 48)
- Ninth Line (former Highway 47)
Settlements Nearest communities Geography - Population: around 8,000 to 10,000
- Area: -
- density: -
- Location:
- Latitude: about 43.9 N
- Longitude: about 79.6 W
- Area code: +1-905
- Name of inhabitants: -
- Postal code: -
The urban area has the longest length of about 2.5 km and the width of as far as 600 to 700 m. Farmlands are to the west, northwest and west while forests dominate the northern part and around the area. Much of the area are not hilly even though most of the area are part of the moraine. The CN rail and the rapid transit rail passes through Stouffville. History Housing developments began to boom in the 1950s mainly in the northern part. The suburban housing developments continued through the 1980s mainly slightly north and south of the community. Unlike other parts of the GTA, Stouffville's population remain the same throughout the 1990s. In 1995, a portion Highway 47 east to Toronto Road, 2 km east of Highway 48 which used to run for 2 km with Stouffville Road and ran with Ninth Line was moved north as a bypass of Stouffville and shortened 4 km of its total length. The highway began near Bloomington Road . The housing developments are presently slow. The nearest industrial area is founded 7 km northeast in the western part of Uxbridge. The industrial area was formed in the late-1990s. Other Stouffville has a few schools, a high school, a hockey arena, a swimming pool, a library, a post office, plazas, banks and parks.
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