Official Name: | Campbellton |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Steven Young |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Land Km2: | 35.71 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 459 |
Population Density Km2: | 12.7 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 49.2867°N -54.9361°W |
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Campbellton is a small lumbering and fishing community located on the island of Newfoundland at Indian Arm, Notre Dame Bay. The community was originally named Indian Arm due to a Beothuk village located on the nearby Indian Arm River. It was renamed to Campbellton in honor of the sawmill manager John Campbell.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Campbellton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 35.81km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]