Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Kneehill County’s surroundings: 22 historic places within 100 km
More of Kneehill County’s homes are old than in most towns: 31% before 1961, against 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Downtown East Village, 93 km off.
The registers find 22 places within 100 km of Kneehill County
Fort Calgary, 93 km off, is the nearest of 8 top-tier places. They belong to 12 towns, chiefly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Red Deer County. At 68 km, The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site in Drumheller is the closest.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic SiteNational historic site of Canada · 68 km away, in Drumheller |
| Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 73 km away, in Red Deer |
| Markerville Lutheran ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 78 km away, in Red Deer County |
| Stephansson HouseProvincial historic resource · 82 km away, in Red Deer County |
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 90 km away, in Lacombe |
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 90 km away, in Lacombe |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Hanna, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 91 km away, in Hanna |
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 93 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 93 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 93 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 93 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 93 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Near Kneehill County (100 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 100 km from Kneehill County, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
The chart rests on 14 dated places within 100 km. Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, goes back furthest, to 1875.
New homes are rare in Kneehill County: 2.6% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Kneehill County’s homes are older than 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Kneehill County 25% of its homes, near the usual 27%. 25% of Kneehill County’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Kneehill County and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kneehill County | 5,129 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Three Hills | 3,502 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Trochu | 1,191 | 0 | 0 | — |
Kneehill County in brief
Housing in Kneehill County includes 31% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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 tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
Questions about Kneehill County’s history
How many historic places does Kneehill County have on the registers?
None within Kneehill County itself; the nearest is 68 km off: The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site, in Drumheller.
How old are the homes in Kneehill County?
31% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Kneehill County be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 2 further listings in Kneehill County show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).