Smoky Lake County is a
municipal district
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Brazil
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in north-eastern
Alberta
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, Canada. Located in
Census Division No. 12, its
municipal office is located in the
Town of Smoky Lake.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by Smoky Lake County.
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Cities
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Towns
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
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Smoky Lake
Smoky Lake is a town in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Edmonton at the junction of Highway 28 and Highway 855. It lies between the North Saskatchewan River, Smoky Creek, and White Earth Creek, in a mainly agricultural area ...
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Villages
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Vilna
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Waskatenau
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Summer villages
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The following
hamlets
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are located within Smoky Lake County.
[
;]Hamlets
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*Bellis
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* Edwand
* Spedden
* Warspite (dissolved from village status in June 2000)
The following Métis settlement
The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They hav ...
s are located within Smoky Lake County.
* Buffalo Lake
* Kikino
The following localities
Locality may refer to:
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* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
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are located within Smoky Lake County.Hamlin Hamlin may refer to:
Places
United States
* Hamlin, Iowa, a city
* Hamlin, Kansas, a city
* Hamlin, Kentucky, a town
* Hamlin, Maine, a town
* Hamlin, Michigan, a former community
* Hamlin, New York, a town
** Hamlin (CDP), New York, a censu ...
*Kikino
*Lobstick Settlement
*Mons Lake
:*Mons Lake Estates[
*North Kotzman
*Northbank
*Pakan
*Parkview Beach
*Sprucefield
*Stry
*Two Lakes
*Victoria Settlement (also Fort Victoria)
*Wahstao
*Wasel
*Whiteman Beach
]
Demographics
As a
census subdivision
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in the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Smoky Lake County had a population of 3,874 living in 1,500 of its 1,913 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 4,107. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
As a census subdivision in the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Smoky Lake County had a population of 4,107 living in 1,556 of its 2,248 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 3,910.
This includes the population of two
Métis
The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They ha ...
settlements,
Buffalo Lake (712) and
Kikino (934),
located within the census subdivision that are municipalities independent of Smoky Lake County.
[ With a land area of , the census subdivision had a population density of in 2016.][ Excluding the two Métis settlements, Smoky Lake County had a population of 2,461 in 2016,][ a change of from its 2011 population of 2,459.]
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 ...
References
External links
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{{Alberta, RM=yes
Municipal districts in Alberta