Camrose County is a
municipal district
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Brazil
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in central
Alberta
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, Canada. It is located in
Census Division 10, around the
City of Camrose.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by Camrose County.
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Cities
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Camrose
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Towns
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Bashaw Bashaw may refer to: Places
;Canada
*Bashaw, Alberta
** Bashaw Airport
;United States
*Bashaw, Wisconsin, a town
*Bashaw, Burnett County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
*Bashaw Township, Brown County, Minnesota
Others
*Mose Bashaw (1889–1 ...
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Villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
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Bawlf
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Bittern Lake
Bittern Lake, originally named Rosenroll, is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located between Camrose and Wetaskiwin, on Highway 13. The first post office opened in the home of Ernest Roper in 1899. It was known as the Village of Rose ...
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Edberg
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Hay Lakes
Hay Lakes is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located along Highway 21, approximately north of Camrose and southeast of Edmonton. Hay Lakes was pioneered and settled primarily by immigrants from Sweden and Norway. Hay Lakes' found ...
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Rosalind
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Summer villages
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The following
hamlets
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...
are located within Camrose County.
[
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A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...
*Armena
Armena is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Camrose County. It is located approximately northwest of Camrose along Highway 21 and has an elevation of .
The hamlet is located in Census Division No. 10 and in the federal riding of Crowfoot.
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* Duhamel
* Ferintosh, dissolved from village status on January 1, 2020designated place
A designated place (DPL) is a type of community or settlement identified by Statistics Canada that does not meet the criteria used to define municipalities or population centres. DPLs are delineated every 5 years for the Canadian census as the sta ...
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*Campbelton
*Demay
*Dinant
*Dorenlee
*Dried Meat Lake
*Edensville
*Ervick
*Ferlow Junction
*Grouse Meadows
*Kiron
*Mccree Acres
*Meldal Subdivision
*Miquelon Acres
*Paradise Resort
*Sherman Park Subdivision
*Twomey
*Viewpoint
*Woodridge Heights
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Camrose County had a population of 8,504 living in 3,223 of its 3,688 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 8,660. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Camrose County had a population of 8,458 living in 3,118 of its 3,492 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 8,004. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
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List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal district ...
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List of municipal districts in Alberta
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. ...
References
External links
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Municipal districts in Alberta