Cow Head

Cow Head
Town

Cow Head Location of Cow Head in Newfoundland
Coordinates: 49°55′00″N 57°48′00″W / 49.9167°N 57.8°W / 49.9167; -57.8Coordinates: 49°55′00″N 57°48′00″W / 49.9167°N 57.8°W / 49.9167; -57.8
Country	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	475
Time zone	Newfoundland Time (UTC-3:30)
• Summer (DST)	Newfoundland Daylight (UTC-2:30)
Area code(s)	709

Cow Head is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 475 in the Canada 2011 Census.

The Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum (c. 1941) in Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.^[2]

An interesting geologic feature found at Cow Head is a section of the former continental margin of Laurentia which dipped into the Iapetus ocean^[3]

References

Division 9, Newfoundland and Labrador (Great Northern Peninsula)

Towns	Anchor Point Bellburns Bird Cove Conche Cook's Harbour Cow Head Daniel's Harbour Englee Flower's Cove Glenburnie–Birchy Head–Shoal Brook Goose Cove East Hawke's Bay Main Brook Norris Point Parson's Pond Port au Choix Port Saunders Raleigh River of Ponds Rocky Harbour Roddickton–Bide Arm St. Anthony St. Lunaire–Griquet St. Pauls Sally's Cove Trout River Woody Point

Unorganized subdivisions	Subdivision 9A Subdivision 9C Subdivision 9D Subdivision 9F Subdivision 9G Subdivision 9H

See also: Census divisions of Newfoundland and Labrador

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