Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Athabasca County’s surroundings: 3 historic places within 100 km
The nearest town to Athabasca County with a top designation is Lac la Biche County, 72 km away. Only 10% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Near Athabasca County, within 100 km: one place of national rank
The nearest is Newbrook Observatory, 37 km away in Thorhild County. Victoria District, 84 km off, is the oldest: 1863. 3 places lie within 100 km.
The 3 nearest, within 100 km
| Newbrook ObservatoryProvincial historic resource · 1951 · 37 km away, in Thorhild County |
| Lac La Biche MissionNational historic site of Canada · 67 km away, in Lac la Biche County |
| Victoria DistrictNational Historic Site · 1863–2001 · 84 km away, in Smoky Lake County |
Most of Athabasca County’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 34%
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up 5.3% of Athabasca County’s, above the typical 4.1%. 28% of Athabasca County’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Over half of the homes in Athabasca County were already standing by 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Athabasca County compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,200 to 7,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Chandler. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have none.
Athabasca County and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athabasca County | 7,280 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Athabasca | 2,887 | 0 | 0 | — |
Athabasca County in brief
Its homes are mostly newer: 10% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
Questions about Athabasca County’s history
How many historic places does Athabasca County have on the registers?
Inside Athabasca County, none so far; Newbrook Observatory, 37 km away in Thorhild County, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Athabasca County?
The 2021 Census dates 10% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Athabasca County be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Athabasca County, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).