Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.06 heritage places lie within 50 km of Plympton-Wyoming
Petrolia, 13 km from Plympton-Wyoming, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Wikidata gives 2001 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged.
Within 50 km of Plympton-Wyoming: 6 places on the registers
Among them are 5 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station. Nearest comes Victoria Hall / Petrolia Town Hall, 13 km off, in Petrolia. Between them, 6 towns share them, mainly Petrolia, Sarnia and Enniskillen.
The 6 nearest, within 50 km
| Victoria Hall / Petrolia Town HallNational Historic Site · 1887–1890 · 13 km away, in Petrolia |
| VIA Rail Station, Sarnia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1891–1892 · 22 km away, in Sarnia |
| First Commercial Oil FieldNational Historic Site · 1858–1859 · 24 km away, in Enniskillen |
| ParkhillNational Historic Site · 38 km away, in Parkhill |
| Battle HillNational Historic Site · 1814 · 48 km away, in Glencoe |
| Fairfield on the ThamesNational Historic Site · 1792–1793 · 49 km away, in Chatham |
The places within 50 km of Plympton-Wyoming lean to the years before Confederation
The nearest historic places to Plympton-Wyoming, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Oldest of all: Fairfield on the Thames, Chatham, 1792. 5 dated places within 50 km make up the record. 3 are older than 1867.
A town of older homes: 24% of Plympton-Wyoming’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
Plympton-Wyoming’s largest group of homes, 32%, went up from 1961 to 1980. From 2016 to 2021 Plympton-Wyoming added 6.3% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Plympton-Wyoming’s homes are older than 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Plympton-Wyoming and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plympton-Wyoming | 9,548 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Petrolia | 6,422 | 1 | 1 | 1887 |
| Enniskillen | 3,174 | 0 | 0 | — |
Plympton-Wyoming in brief
Housing in Plympton-Wyoming includes 24% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and its past has one life on the record, Gordon Beverly Walker (1891).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Plympton-Wyoming’s history
How many historic places does Plympton-Wyoming have on the registers?
None inside Plympton-Wyoming yet. The nearest, Victoria Hall / Petrolia Town Hall, carries the highest designation, 13 km away in Petrolia.
When did Plympton-Wyoming become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Plympton-Wyoming to 2001. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Plympton-Wyoming?
24% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).