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Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984. Its location is north of Banff National Park and west of Edmonton.
Jasper House was 35 km north of today's town of Jasper. Jasper Forest Park was established in 1907. The railway divisional point at the location of the future townsite was established by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president [6] (along the Grand Trunk's "alphabet" line).
Jasper is located at (34.469127, -84.434039 [7]Georgia State Route 53 passes through the center of Jasper, while Georgia State Routes 5 and 515 bypass the city to its west. GA-5/515 lead north 21 mi (34 km) to Ellijay and south 60 mi (97 km) to Atlanta, via its connection with Interstate 575, which ends just south of the city.
Marmot Basin is an alpine ski area located on Marmot Mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park. It has 91 named runs on four mountain faces with 3,000 vertical feet of drop. The area has a lift capacity of close to 12,000 skiers per hour on seven lifts. The season runs from mid-November to early May.
Jasper is a city in and the county seat of [2] Walker County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 14,352 as of the 2010 census. [ 3 ] Named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper , an American Revolutionary War hero, Jasper was settled around 1815 and incorporated on August 18, 1886.
Jasper was a Confederate Army headquarters for a nine-county area. Following the war, Union troops led by General George Custer occupied Jasper, camping in the town square. Educational institutions included the Jasper Male and Female High School, which operated until 1878, when it became the Southeast Texas Male and Female College, and Jasper ...
Walker County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,342. [2] Its county seat is Jasper. [3] Its name is in honor of John Williams Walker, the first U.S. senator elected from Alabama.
Jasper is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is southeast of Springfield on Oregon Route 222 , at the confluence of Hills Creek and the Middle Fork Willamette River .