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Townships in relation with meridians, baselines and correction lines. Below is a brief description of how to lay out the DLS grid for Alberta. [3] [4] Lay off 6-mile-3-chain (9.7 km) ticks from the 49th parallel of latitude to the 60th parallel. This gives 127 township lines. The 49th parallel of latitude is the first base line of the ATS system.
Alberta's 344 municipalities cover 99.7% of the province's land mass and are home to 99% of its population. [2] [a] These municipalities provide local government services, including roads, water, sewer and garbage collection among others, and a variety of programs to their residents. [4] [5]
Distribution of Alberta's 80 villages. A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta villages are created when communities with populations of at least 300 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1,850 m 2, apply to Alberta Municipal Affairs for village status under the authority of the Municipal ...
The authority to incorporate a community as a new town came from The New Towns Act, which was chapter 39 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1956. At least 12 communities incorporated as a new town between 1956 and 1967. Cynthia and Drayton Valley were the first communities in Alberta to incorporate as new towns on June 1, 1956.
Rural and specialized municipalities, cities, towns, and select hamlets in Alberta Distribution of Alberta's 6 specialized municipalities (red) and 74 rural municipalities, which include municipal districts that are often branded as counties (orange), improvement districts (dark green) and special areas (light green) (2020)
Alberta has six specialized municipalities that had a cumulative population of 178,598 and an average population of 35,720 in the 2011 Census. [4] Alberta's largest and smallest specialized municipalities are the Strathcona County and the Municipality of Jasper with populations of 92,490 and 4,051 respectively.
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
List of municipalities in Alberta. List of cities in Alberta; List of improvement districts in Alberta; List of Metis settlements in Alberta; List of municipal districts in Alberta; List of special areas in Alberta; List of specialized municipalities in Alberta; List of summer villages in Alberta; List of towns in Alberta; List of villages in ...
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