Photo: jayscratch from Victoria, B.C., Canada · CC BY-SA 2.037 heritage places lie within 100 km of Camrose County
The nearest town to Camrose County with a top designation is Wetaskiwin, 45 km away. Records name 2 people born in Camrose County before 1914; the first is Hilliard Beyerstein. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1944: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Within 100 km of Camrose County: 37 places on the registers
The mix: 26 provincial or municipal listings, 5 National Historic Sites and 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Closest of all is Wetaskiwin Court House, in Wetaskiwin, 44 km off. They belong to 17 towns, chiefly Downtown, Strathcona and Leduc County.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Wetaskiwin Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1907–1910 · 44 km away, in Wetaskiwin |
| BarnRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1938–1939 · 71 km away, in Lamont County |
| Leduc-Woodbend OilfieldNational Historic Site · 1946 · 78 km away, in Leduc County |
| Leduc No. 1Provincial historic resource · 80 km away, in Leduc County |
| Ukrainian Pioneer HomeClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1951–1952 · 82 km away, in Strathcona County |
| PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1933–1935 · 82 km away, in Strathcona County |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 83 km away, in Ritchie |
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 83 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old StrathconaProvincial historic area · 83 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 83 km away, in Strathcona |
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 83 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 83 km away, in Strathcona |
Near Camrose County, within 100 km: built places from 1794 on
No place near Camrose County is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, in Sturgeon County, goes back furthest, to 1794. 24 dated places within 100 km make up the record. 2 go back before 1867.
A town of older homes: 29% of Camrose County’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
Camrose County has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 22%, where most towns have 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Camrose County added 5.9% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Half of the homes standing in Camrose County today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Camrose County and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camrose County | 8,951 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Camrose | 20,800 | 0 | 0 | — |
Camrose County in brief
In Camrose County, 29% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and Hilliard Beyerstein (1907) and Adolph Fimrite (1913) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
Questions about Camrose County’s history
How many historic places does Camrose County have on the registers?
Not within Camrose County. Its nearest is a top designation: Wetaskiwin Court House, 44 km away in Wetaskiwin.
When did Camrose County become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Camrose County is 1944, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Camrose County?
Before 1961: 29% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Camrose County be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 5 more listings in Camrose County are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
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).