{{short description|Community of Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} [[File:Frogmore, ON.jpg|thumb|Welcome sign]] '''Frogmore, Ontario''' is a small hamlet that is located northwest of [[Valley Heights Secondary School]]. [[Agriculture]] is the main [[Industry (economics)|industry]] and commerce is non-existent. There is a concrete products company and a church in the hamlet. It is one of the westernmost communities in [[Norfolk County, Ontario]], [[Canada]].
Frogmore's earliest known inhabitants, from around the year 1000 until approximately 300–350 years later, were the [[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] nation. They were noted flint-workers and evidence of their skill in crafting arrowheads is still to be found in open worked field areas surrounding the village. The next wave of inhabitants were the [[Neutral Nation|Attawandaron]] nation, the Neutrals, who occupied the region from about 1350 until their absorption by the [[Iroquois]] in the year 1651. The last significant native nation to occupy the area was the [[Mississaugas]].
In 2001, Haldimand-Norfolk was dissolved into two separate single-tier counties. Frogmore became part of the newly formed County of Norfolk.
==Summary== This community has approximately 147 people; a sizeable population of them are German Mennonites and Mexican Mennonites. Named in 1886 after one of Queen Victoria's residences in Hampshire, England.<ref>[http://www.ruralroutes.com/frogmore Basic information] at Rural Routes</ref>
Six wind turbines with a generation capacity of approximately 9 MW of electricity have been placed in the vicinity, about 7 kilometres to the south near the shore of Lake Erie.<ref>[http://www.canwea.ca/featuredWindFarm_e.php?farmId=83 ''Frogmore Wind Project''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223134251/http://canwea.ca/featuredWindFarm_e.php?farmId=83 |date=2010-12-23 }} at Canadian Wind Energy Association</ref> Norfolk County regional council passed a resolution to be an "unwilling host" to future wind turbine development in May 2013.<ref name="nonewwindmills">{{cite web | url = http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2013/05/14/norfolk-seeks-end-to-turbine-development| title = Norfolk Seeks End to Turbine Development| access-date = 2013-05-15}}</ref> Frogmore is not seeing notable population growth as people may choose to move to the larger nearby communities of Simcoe, Delhi, and Tillsonburg.
The popular tourist destination of [[Port Burwell, Ontario|Port Burwell]] is just a 30 minutes' drive to the southwest of this community. Another historic community, Sparta, along with the [[St. Thomas Raceway Park]] lies 45 minutes to the southwest from Frogmore.
===Climate=== The winter of 1975 was the only unusually mild winter in the region from 1897 to 1977.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Maximum Freezing Degree-Days as a Winter Severity Index for the Great Lakes, 1897–1977 | journal = Monthly Weather Review | volume = 108 | issue = 9 | pages = 1440 | publisher = American Meteorological Society | doi = 10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108<1440:MFDDAA>2.0.CO;2 | issn = 1520-0493 | year = 1980 | bibcode = 1980MWRv..108.1440A | last1 = Assel | first1 = Raymond A. | doi-access = free }}</ref> From the late 1990s onwards, winters have become more mild due to changes in climate brought on by global warming. Frogmore traditionally belongs to the [[humid continental climate]] zone, even with the recent mild winters and warmer dry summers. As in all communities, towns and cities throughout the world, [[global warming]] due to human industrial activity has altered the climate of Frogmore over the decades.
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