The Municipal District of Wainwright No. 61 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 eastern
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, Canada. Located in
Census Division No. 7., its
municipal office is located in the
Town of Wainwright. The municipal district is bisected north-south by the
Buffalo Trail
Buffalo most commonly refers to:
* Bubalina, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo
* Bison, including the American buffalo
* Buffalo, New York
Buffalo or buffaloes may also refer to:
Animals
* Bubalina, a subtribe of the t ...
and east-west by the
Poundmaker Trail
Poundmaker Trail is a interprovincial highway in Western Canada that runs from Edmonton, Alberta, to North Battleford, Saskatchewan, following Alberta Highway 14 and Saskatchewan Highway 40. The highway is named after Pitikwahanapiw ...
.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by the MD of Wainwright No. 61.
;
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
;
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 ...
*
Wainwright
;
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 ...
*
Chauvin
*
Edgerton
*
Irma
;
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 Wainwright No. 61.
[
;]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 ...
* Fabyan
* Greenshields
* Ribstone
The following localities are located within the MD of Wainwright No. 61.Heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...
* Hope Valley
*Jarrow
*Killarney Lake
*Park Farm
*Prospect Valley
*Rocky Ford
*Roros
*Saville Farm
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 Wainwright No. 61 had a population of 4,276 living in 1,490 of its 1,852 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 4,464. 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 Wainwright No. 61 had a population of 4,479 living in 1,459 of its 1,768 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 4,138. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
*
List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of Local government in Canada, local governments – urban municipalities (including List of cities in Alberta, cities, List of towns in Alberta, towns, List of villages in Alberta, vil ...
*
List of municipal districts in Alberta
References
External links
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