Bickford Ontario Map

About Bickford, Ontario

Bickford is a locality in Lambton, Ontario, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Bickford is located at 42.7662°N, 82.4285°W.

Bickford rests in a shallow valley where the land gently slopes towards the St. Clair River, its fields a patchwork of cultivated greens and earthy browns under a vast Ontario sky. It lies 25.6 km south-south-west of Sarnia, ON (from Sarnia, ON: bearing 201°T), and is situated 13.4 km south of Corunna. The air here, especially in the long, languid evenings of summer, carries the faint, sweet perfume of ripening corn and the damp, mineral tang of the nearby water. Fields are crisscrossed by narrow ditches, their banks often softened by the persistent bloom of Queen Anne's Lace and the sturdy presence of wild phlox, while the occasional stand of mature maple trees offers a deeper, more humid shade. The horizon is a soft, unbroken line, punctuated only by the stoic silhouette of a distant barn or the slow drift of clouds that seem to hang lower here, their undersides catching the fading light in hues of rose and bruised plum. The story of Bickford is deeply entwined with the fertile soil and the river that has long been its artery of commerce. Originally settled by farmers drawn to the rich farmland, its economy has historically been rooted in agriculture, with cash crops like soybeans and winter wheat dominating the landscape. Though the immediate settlement is modest, the echoes of a past reliant on steamboats and the grain trade can still be felt in the sturdy, unpretentious architecture of older farmsteads. Today, Bickford maintains its agricultural heart, its daily life measured by the turning of the seasons and the quiet hum of tractors, a place where the deep, dark earth yields its bounty, and the occasional hawk circles lazily overhead, a silent sentinel over the quiet industriousness of the land.

About This Bickford Map Page

Explore Bickford, Ontario, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 42.76618, -82.4285. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Bickford includes the postal code (N8A), telephone area code (226, 249, 289, 343, 365, 382, 416, 437, 519, 548, 613, 647, 705, 742, 807, 905). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Bickford is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.