Doig is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
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 ce ...
, 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 (; ; , lit. ''moss bog'') is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal ecosystem, boreal areas. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bogland, bog or peatland, and is a standard te ...
and boreal forest landscape.
The
Doig Airport is located here.
It was named after the
Doig River, a tributary of
Beatton River. The middle
Triassic
The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...
bituminous
Doig Formation was named after this place.
Clear Hills County
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