A locality, in general, is a place that is settled by humans. In the Canadian province of Alberta, a locality is an unincorporated place, community, or area with a limited or scattered population, with boundaries that "are often undefined".[1] Localities cover a diversity of items, including: industrial areas, such as Acheson; residential acreage developments, such as McDermott; trailer parks, such as Branch Inn Trailer Court in Yellowhead County; mixed-use roadside stops, such as Beach Corner; residential neighbourhoods in large cities that are considered part of a historic or planning area, such as Mount Royal; long ago settlements that have devolved back into farmland, such as Connor Creek; and others.
Alberta had 864 localities within its Geographical Names System (GNS) in October 2020.[2] Excluding municipalities, hamlets, and airports, Statistics Canada recognized 2,342 localities in Alberta in its 2006 Census of Population,[3] of which 830 are also in Alberta's GNS. Between the two authorities there are 2,372 localities in Alberta.
- ^ Base Features Information. AltaLIS. August 24, 2021. p. 42. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
The Culture Point dataset is comprised of all the points that represent Hamlets, Localities and Townsites in Alberta. ... Locality is an unincorporated place or an area with scattered population. ... The boundaries of rural classification of Locality and Townsite are often undefined. ... Locality and Townsite are derived from the Geographical Names System (GNS) database which captures the named features but not the precise location of each named feature.
- ^ Geo-Administrative Areas (Hamlet, Locality and Townsite Culture Points) (Geodatabase layer) (Map). AltaLIS. October 26, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
{{cite map}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Economic Regions - SGC 2006". Statistics Canada. November 27, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2021.