Doig is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
northern Alberta
Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.
An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the cent ...
, Canada. It is located in
Clear Hills County
Clear Hills County is a municipal district in north western Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 17.
In 1950, the massive Chinchaga fire burned through much of the region.
On January 1, 2006, the name was changed from ''Municip ...
, in a
muskeg
Muskeg (Ojibwe: mashkiig; cr, maskīk; french: fondrière de mousse, lit. ''moss bog'') is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bog or ...
and boreal forest landscape.
The
Doig Airport
Doig Airport is a remote forest fire suppression airfield located in northwestern Alberta, Canada. "Doig" is just the name of the airfield's location, named for the Doig River; there is no community with that name.
The airfield is located on the ...
is located here.
It was named after the
Doig River
The Doig River is a river in Alberta and northern British Columbia, Canada.
It originates on the northern fringes of Peace River Country in northern Alberta, south of the Chinchaga Wildland Park, in the Halverson Ridge of the Clear Hills, then f ...
, a tributary of
Beatton River
The Beatton River is a tributary of the Peace River, flowing generally east, then south through north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The river rises at Pink Mountain, about west of the Alaska Highway hamlet of the same name, and flows genera ...
. The middle
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
bituminous
Doig Formation
The Doig Formation is a geologic formation of middle Triassic age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from Doig River, a tributary of the Beatton River, and was first described in the Texaco N.F.A. Buick Creek No. 7 wel ...
was named after this place.
Clear Hills County
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