Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. In 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017.[Census Division 3 around the Town of Cardston.
The municipal district was established on January 1, 1954, through the amalgamation of the ''Municipal District of Sugar City No. 5'' and part of the ''Municipal District of Cochrane No. 6''. On January 1, 2000, the name was changed from ''Municipal District of Cardston No. 6'' to ''Cardston County''
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Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities
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are surrounded by Cardston 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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Cardston
Cardston is a town in Alberta, Canada. It was first settled in 1887 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who travelled from Utah, via the Macleod-Benton Trail, to present-day Alberta in one of the century' ...
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Magrath
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Villages
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Glenwood
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Hill Spring
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Summer villages
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The following
hamlets
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are located within Cardston County.
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*Aetna
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*Beazer
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* Carway
* Del Bonita
* Kimball
* Leavitt
* Mountain View
*Spring Coulee
Spring Coulee is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cardston County, located east of Highway 5, approximately southwest of Lethbridge.
History
Spring Coulee once boasted a general store, a hotel, three grain elevators, a pool ha ...
*Welling
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* Welling Station
* Woolford
The following localities are located within Cardston County.Raley Raley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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*Rush Lake
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada, Cardston County had a population of 4,856 living in 1,143 of its 1,387 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 4,481. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
*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 distr ...
*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, e ...
References
External links
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Municipal districts in Alberta