The Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130 is a

municipal district A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly-defined territory and its population. It can refer to a city, a town, a village, a small grouping of them, or a rural area. Brazil In Brazil, municipal districts are, in genera ...

(MD) in northwestern

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, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 19, its municipal office is located in the Town of

Falher Falher (, ) is a town in the Peace Country area of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130, along Highway 49. Falher is one of the earliest agricultural communities in the Peace River Country and is notab ...

History

On January 1, 1952, its name was changed from ''MD of Fillion No. 130'' to its current name, which was taken from

Smoky River The Smoky River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Peace River. The descriptive name refers to the presence of "smouldering beds of coal in the riverbank" noted by the Cree Indians. It drains an area of . F ...

, a tributary of

Peace River The Peace River (french: links=no, rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in th ...

Geography

Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the MD of Smoky River No. 130. ;

Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

*none ;

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* McLennan ;

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 ...

* Donnelly *

Girouxville Girouxville (; ) is a village in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located south of the Town of Peace River. History The community has the name of the local Giroux family, being named after Father Henri Giroux, a Roman Catholic missionary appoi ...

; Summer villages *none 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 the MD of Smoky River No. 130. ;

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 ...

* Guy * Jean Cote The following localities are located within the MD of Smoky River No. 130. ;Localities *Ballater *Crowell * Culp *Dreau *Forest View * Kathleen *Lac Magloire *Little Smoky *Normandville *Roxana *Whitemud Creek *Winagami

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Smoky River No. 130 had a population of 1,684 living in 637 of its 753 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,006. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Smoky River No. 130 had a population of 2,023 living in 720 of its 891 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 2,126. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

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