Kneehill County is a
municipal district in
central Alberta, Canada within
Census Division No. 5.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities
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History
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are surrounded by Kneehill County:
;
Cities
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;
Towns
*
Three Hills (location of
municipal office
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)
*
Trochu
;
Villages
*
Acme
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Arts and entertainment
* ''Acme'' (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
* Acme and Septimius, a fictional ...
*
Carbon
*
Linden
;
Summer villages
*none
The following
hamlets are located within Kneehill County:
[
; Hamlets
*]Bircham
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*Hesketh Hesketh may refer to:
People
* Baron Hesketh: the various barons or lords Hesketh, who lived at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire, England
** Lord Hesketh: the Conservative Party politician, formally titled Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Heske ...
*Huxley
Huxley may refer to:
People
* Huxley (surname)
* The British Huxley family
* Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
* Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of ''Brave New World'', grandson ...
* Sunnyslope
*Swalwell
Swalwell is a village in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, in the United Kingdom.
History
On 27 August 1640, an encampment of soldiers was gathered in the fields north of Whickham church on the slope down to Swalwell. This was part of the Roy ...
* Torrington (dissolved from village status in December 1997)
* Wimborne
The following localities are located within Kneehill County:
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Kneehill County had a population of 4,992 living in 1,746 of its 1,912 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 5,001. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kneehill County had a population of 5,001 living in 1,722 of its 1,859 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 4,921. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
*
List of communities in Alberta
*
List of municipal districts in Alberta
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References
External links
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Municipal districts in Alberta