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History of Nobleford · Canada’s heritage registers

Nobleford’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 50 km

Heritage of the first rank begins 30 km from Nobleford, in Fort Macleod. There is also one listing on a provincial or municipal register with no open description, so no page.

Historic places within 50 km

3 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

29 km

Fort Macleod

Homes built before 1961

15%

typical town: 18%

Around the town

5 places on Canada’s registers lie 50 km or less from Nobleford

Among them are 3 National Historic Sites and 2 provincial or municipal listings. The earliest date is Fort Whoop-Up’s, 1869, 30 km away. Their towns number 3: Fort Macleod, Cardston County and Willow Creek No. 26 first.

The 5 nearest, within 50 km

Fort MacleodNational Historic Site · 1874–1875 · 29 km away, in Fort Macleod

Fort Whoop-UpNational Historic Site · 1869–1870 · 30 km away, in Cardston County

Empress TheatreProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 31 km away, in Fort Macleod

Territorial Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1902–1905 · 31 km away, in Fort Macleod

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo JumpWorld Heritage Site · 44 km away, in Willow Creek No. 26

How it began

Nobleford’s milestones, starting in 1913

A change of name came to Nobleford in 1913. Nobleford took its legal form as a village in 1918.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Nobleford”, revision 1378116909 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Homes by age

New homes stand out in Nobleford: 10% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%

Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 3.4% of Nobleford’s, against 23% in the typical town. 39% of Nobleford’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Nobleford has 15% of its homes from before 1961.

15%

Before 1961

30%

1961–80

3.4%

1981–2000

39%

2001–15

10%

2016–21

NoblefordTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Nobleford and its neighbours

Town	People	Oldest
Nobleford	1,694	—
Coalhurst	3,244	—
Lethbridge County	10,988	—

In brief

Nobleford in brief

Counted by age, only 15% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.

How to read these numbers

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.
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.
Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
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.
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.

Questions about Nobleford’s history

How many historic places does Nobleford have on the registers?

Inside Nobleford, none so far. At 29 km, Fort Macleod in Fort Macleod is the nearest, with the top designation.

How old are the homes in Nobleford?

15% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.

Why might a heritage building in Nobleford be missing here?

Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Nobleford, 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).