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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.
Alberta has 105 towns that had a cumulative population of 471,028 in the 2021 Census of Population. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 16 ] The province's largest and smallest towns by population are Cochrane and Rainbow Lake with 32,199 and 495 respectively, while its largest and smallest by land area are Drumheller and Eckville with 107.56 km 2 (41.53 sq mi) and ...
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.
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)
Distribution of Alberta's 19 cities, 2 urban service areas and 10 towns that are eligible for city status.. A city is the highest form of all incorporated urban municipality statuses used in the Canadian Province of Alberta.
All towns in Alberta should be included in this category. This includes all towns that can also be found in the subcategories. The main article for this category is List of towns in Alberta; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Towns in Alberta
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.