Kneehill County is a
municipal district in
central Alberta, Canada within
Census Division No. 5.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by Kneehill County:
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Cities
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Towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Three Hills
Three Hills is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It takes its name from the three somewhat-larger-than-normal hills to its north.
History
Three Hills post office dates from 1904. Three Hills was incorporated as a village in 1912, the year ...
(location of
municipal office
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
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Trochu
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Villages
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Acme
Acme is Ancient Greek (ακμή; English transliteration: ''akmē'') for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Acme'' (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
* Acme and Septimius, a fictional ...
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Carbon
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Linden
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Summer villages
*none
The following
hamlets are located within Kneehill County:
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; 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
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List of communities in Alberta
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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