Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0History around Lacombe County: 5 designated places within 50 km
Heritage of the first rank begins 64 km from Lacombe County, in Wetaskiwin. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
The registers find 5 places within 50 km of Lacombe County
The nearest is Flatiron Building, 3.5 km away in Lacombe. They stand in 3 towns, Lacombe, Red Deer County and Red Deer among them. Among them are 4 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 3.5 km away, in Lacombe |
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 3.6 km away, in Lacombe |
| Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 21 km away, in Red Deer |
| Stephansson HouseProvincial historic resource · 43 km away, in Red Deer County |
| Markerville Lutheran ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 45 km away, in Red Deer County |
Lacombe County built the most from 1981 to 2000, 28% of today’s homes
26% of Lacombe County’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. From 2016 on, Lacombe County built 5.8% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. Homes from before 1961 are 18% of Lacombe County’s housing, about the typical 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Lacombe County compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 11,000 to 11,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Smiths Falls and Penetanguishene. Their median is 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Lacombe County and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacombe County | 11,072 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lacombe | 14,733 | 2 | 0 | 1904 |
| Blackfalds | 12,258 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bentley | 1,153 | 0 | 0 | — |
Lacombe County in brief
Older stock first: 18% of homes in Lacombe County were standing by 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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 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 Lacombe County’s history
How many historic places does Lacombe County have on the registers?
Lacombe County has none of its own yet. Flatiron Building, in Lacombe, is the nearest, 3.5 km away.
How old are the homes in Lacombe County?
18% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Lacombe County be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Lacombe County shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).