Bassano | |
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Town | |
| Town of Bassano | |
| Motto: The Best in the West by a damsite | |
  Bassano Location of Bassano in Alberta | |
| Coordinates: 50°47′03″N 112°27′05″W / 50.78417°N 112.45139°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Alberta |
| Region | Southern Alberta |
| Census division | 2 |
| Municipal district | County of Newell |
| Incorporated[1] | |
| • Village | December 28, 1909 |
| • Town | January 16, 1911 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Blu Hale |
| • Governing body | Bassano Town Council |
| • MP | Martin Shields |
| • MLA | Danielle Smith |
| Area (2021)[3] | |
| • Land | 5.23 km2 (2.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 792 m (2,598 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,216 |
| • Density | 232.5/km2 (602/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
| Area code | +1-403 |
| Highways | Highway 1 |
| Waterways | Crawling Valley Reservoir Bow River |
| Website | Official website |
Bassano (/bəˈsænoʊ/ bə-SAN-oh) is a town in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) southeast of Calgary and 160 kilometres (99 mi) northwest of Medicine Hat. It is also on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City. A short distance south of the town is the Bassano Dam (originally "Horse Shoe Bend Dam"[5]), serves as a diversion structure which routes water through a canal into Lake Newell Reservoir which supplies water to the majority of the County of Newell for purposes like irrigation, recreation, and the County's drinking water.
The Bassano Dam holds the record for highest temperature in Alberta which is 43.3 °C (109.9 °F).[6]
The community has the name of Marquis de Bassano, a railroad promoter.[7]
- ^ "Location and History Profile: Town of Bassano" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. October 7, 2016. p. 29. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
- ^ "Municipal Officials Search". Alberta Municipal Affairs. May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
2021censuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
- ^ Engineering Works of uCalgary. 1915. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
- ^ Canada, Environment and Climate Change (October 31, 2011). "Daily Data Report for July 1931 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada". climate.weather.gc.ca.
- ^ Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 16.