Tresfjord is a village and former municipality in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The former municipality encompassed the southern part of the present-day municipality of Vestnes

Vestnes

Vestnes is a village and a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, a 35 minute ferry ride from the town of Molde. Vestnes is part of the Romsdal region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestnes...

. The village of Tresfjord is located at the southern end of the Tresfjorden

Tresfjorden

Tresfjorden is a fjord in the municipality of Vestnes in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord branches off of the Romsdalsfjord near the village of Vestnes, and it stretches south to the village of Tresfjord....

. The 0.55 square kilometres (135.9 acre) village has a population (2009) is 218.

History

The municipality of Sylte was established on 1 January 1899 when it was separated from Vestnes

Vestnes

Vestnes is a village and a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, a 35 minute ferry ride from the town of Molde. Vestnes is part of the Romsdal region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestnes...

. The initial population was 1,408. The name was changed to Tresfjord on 28 April 1922. On 1 January 1964, the municipality ceased to exist when it became a part of Vestnes once again. The population at that time was 1,319.