20250304 9364300 20130715 16033900 FALSE 20240115 11325300 BF_GEO_CULTURE_POINT 185477.489800 855106.211000 5426412.901000 6638008.630600 1 Projected GCS_North_American_1983 Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000) NAD_1983_10TM_AEP_Forest <ProjectedCoordinateSystem xsi:type='typens:ProjectedCoordinateSystem' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/10.7'><WKT>PROJCS[&quot;NAD_1983_10TM_AEP_Forest&quot;,GEOGCS[&quot;GCS_North_American_1983&quot;,DATUM[&quot;D_North_American_1983&quot;,SPHEROID[&quot;GRS_1980&quot;,6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM[&quot;Greenwich&quot;,0.0],UNIT[&quot;Degree&quot;,0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION[&quot;Transverse_Mercator&quot;],PARAMETER[&quot;False_Easting&quot;,500000.0],PARAMETER[&quot;False_Northing&quot;,0.0],PARAMETER[&quot;Central_Meridian&quot;,-115.0],PARAMETER[&quot;Scale_Factor&quot;,0.9992],PARAMETER[&quot;Latitude_Of_Origin&quot;,0.0],UNIT[&quot;Meter&quot;,1.0],AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,3400]]</WKT><XOrigin>-5118700</XOrigin><YOrigin>-9994100</YOrigin><XYScale>10000</XYScale><ZOrigin>0</ZOrigin><ZScale>1</ZScale><MOrigin>0</MOrigin><MScale>1</MScale><XYTolerance>0.001</XYTolerance><ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance><MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance><HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision><WKID>102184</WKID><LatestWKID>3400</LatestWKID></ProjectedCoordinateSystem> 1.0 NAP 150000000 5000 B404C85E-718D-4743-871E-0C0F67916480 dataset Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 - 106 Street NW Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 CA PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca 08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday 20250409 ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class 3.0 File Geodatabase 3.0 FGDB ZIP Altalis Ltd. 4037163490 4037163494 Suite 1550, 635 - 8 Avenue SW Calgary Alberta T2P 3M3 CA support@altalis.com 08:00 to 16:30 Monday to Friday The layer is a part of the Base Features product which can be accessed and downloaded via the Open Data option from Altalis: http://www.altalis.com/ https://geospatial.alberta.ca/titan/rest/services/boundaries/municipal_communities_public/MapServer REST boundaries/municipal_communities_public (Map Server) Map service containing populated places in Alberta https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/home/item.html?id=24c8aa099c5b470c8da41afcb72bfac4 HTTPS Communities Map service portal page with linkage to feature service and open web map service (WMS) Shapefile 3.0 SHP ZIP Hamlet, Locality and Townsite Point Culture Point 2003-09-01T00:00:00 2025-04-03T00:00:00 2025-04-03T00:00:00 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 - 106 Street NW Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 CA PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca 08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Culture Point dataset is comprised of all the points that represent Hamlets, Localities and Townsites in Alberta. The formation of a Hamlet can occur if there are 5 or more buildings used as dwellings with a majority of which are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square metres, has a generally accepted boundary and name and contains parcels of land that are used for non-residential purposes. Hamlet is an unincorporated community that can be designated by the council of Municipal District or Specialized Municipality within their boundaries, or by the Minister of Municipal Affairs within the boundaries of an Improvement District. Locality is an unincorporated place or an area with scattered population. Townsite is a federally administered village. The boundaries of rural classification of Locality and Townsite are often undefined.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> The Culture Point dataset provides users with GIS ready point representation of all Hamlets, Localities and Townsites in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes. Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 - 106 Street NW Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 CA PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca 08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday Alberta, Canada Localities Hamlets Townsites Municipal points Culture points Alberta Canada Localities Hamlets Townsites Municipal Points Culture Points Your use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence Distribution Liability: Under the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, the Information is licensed as is, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage. Public/Unrestricted Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/Pages/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification.aspx 1 -120.609028 -108.672067 59.903515 48.908135 Culture Point contains Hamlet, Locality and Townsite. Hamlets are defined by Orders-in-Council but not the other two. Besides name, each Hamlet has a numeric identifier (i.e. 0709 for Fort MacKay) designated by Alberta Municipal Affairs documented in the Municipal Codes. Urban Service Area is excluded in the Culture Point even though the entity is listed in the same classification of 'Hamlet and Urban Service Area' within the Municipal Codes document. Locality and Townsite are derived from the Geographical Names System (GNS) database which captures the named features but not the precise location of each named feature. An unique alphanumeric number is assigned to each Locality and Townsite, within their own feature classification in alphabetical sequence. Altalis Ltd. is the designated agent of Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) who provides the monthly update of Hamlet point shape file to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, if there are changes commencing Nov. 2005. The Hamlet shape file is amalgamated with Locality and Townsite extracted from the GNS database to form Culture Point. GNS Place name Database Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta GNS Place name Database is part of the GNS Database maintained by Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta. Hamletpt.shp Altalis Ltd. Altalis Ltd. and Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Calgary, Alberta (Altalis Ltd.) and Edmonton, Alberta (Alberta Environment and Protected Areas) Hamletpt.shp is part of a zip file delivered to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta monthly that contains l municipality types maintained by Altalis. Initial compilation as point coverage which included Settlement. There were 11 hamlets which did not have locations identified by ADP Municipal digital file and, therefore, were not captured within the layer. They were Gregoire Lake Estates, Heritage Pointe, Janvier South, Pelican Point, Pine Sands, Priddis Greens, Saprae Creek, Tillicum Beach, Village at Pigeon Lake, Wedgewood, and Welling Station. 2003-09-01T00:00:00 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre AEP.GDAMetadata@gov.ab.ca Source data was ADP Municipal Boundary Hamlet Point Shape file which merged with locations listed or derived centroids from GNS listing. 2005-11-01T00:00:00 The latest MS Excel spreadsheet of the Municipal Codes is downloaded from the Alberta Municipal Affairs website (for Hamlet) and the GNS Place name MS Excel spreadsheet from Alberta Environment and Parks (for Locality and Townsite) is obtained from the Data Acquisition Unit. Both MS spreadsheets are converted to dBase III format. The Culture Point table (CULPT_NAME, CULPT_CODE and TYPE) of the Base Features (BF) Geoadministrative Areas (GA) Specification is updated according to the Altalis Ltd. Municipal Boundary Change Tracking spreadsheet for Hamlet and the GNS Place name database update identification for Locality and Townsite. The original source Hamlet Shape file received from Altalis is processed and merged with the calculated locational centroids (longitude and latitude) of the extracted Localities and Townsites from the GNS Place name database to generate a point layer. A formatted Point Shape file, preserved with the same original Hamlet spatial accuracy and calculated centroids of Localities and Townsites along with name normalized to upper/lower case, is attributed according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Culture Point table standard (i.e. CULPT_NAME, CULPT_CODE and TYPE). The TYPE is populated according to the feature classification. The formatted point shape attribute values are validated against the Municipal Codes and GNS Place name database. 2005-11-01T00:00:00 Settlement points were taken out from the Culture Point layer. Polygonal representation layer of Settlement was created. 2006-10-01T00:00:00 New Hamlet: Lac La Biche (O.C. 332/2007). Keg River (Locality) - Remove comment that goes with the name. 2008-06-01T00:00:00 Eagle Hill (CULPT_CODE = 20974), Seebe (CULPT_CODE = 20975), Water Valley (CULPT_CODE = 20976) & Westward Ho (CULPT_CODE = 20977). 2009-04-01T00:00:00 Thorhild (O.C. 131/2009) 2009-07-21T00:00:00 New - Derwent [Code=0085] (O.C. 229/2010), New Sarepta [Code=0234] (O.C. 230/2010), [Former village being dissolved] 2010-01-01T00:00:00 New Hamlet: Kinuso (O.C. 407/2009) 2010-02-01T00:00:00 Locality: GNS location correction - Chapel Rock ,Tod Creek 2010-09-01T00:00:00 Hamlet - Deletion of Shepard. Locality - Deletion of Aerial, Balmoral, Central Park, Collicutt, Kneehill, Labuma, Stafford Village, Western Monach & Willow Creek. 2010-09-01T00:00:00 Hamlet: Name change - Wabasca-Desmarais to Wabasca 2011-02-01T00:00:00 Goose Lake: Location correction. Hamlet moves into NW27-61-8-5. 2011-06-01T00:00:00 Locality: a. Deleted: Big Meadow/NE of High Prairie (Code=20962); Fox Lake/SE of Medicine Hat (Code=20925) b. Modified: Big Meadow/NE of Bonnyville to Big Meadow (Code=20094); Fox Lake/ SE of High Level to Fox Lake (Code=20298). 2012-08-01T00:00:00 Bow City (5682), Cassils (5683) and New Norway (0233). Locality: Deletion - Benton Station (Code=20085), Bow City (Code=20112), Cassils (Code=20155), Illingworth (Code=20408), Jethson (Code=20425), Owlseye Lake (Code=20941), Puskwaskau (Code=20970), Sage Creek (Code=20726), Savage Prairie (Code=20732), Sunnysite (Code=20795), Tsuu Tina (Code=20956), Victoria (Code=20842), Wabasca (Code=20960), Wilson Prairie (Code=20877). Update - Anning (Code=20026) Adjust location - **Jasper (Code=20931) classified as Hamlet. A non-Municipal Affairs designated hamlet. Consensus made by Parks Canada and the Geographic Names Committee in 2012 identified it as Hamlet (under TYPE) but carries the existing Locality code. Niobe (Code=20901): Correct 'W of Sexsmith to NE of Beaverlodge' , Savanna (Code=20971): Add in 'NW of Spirit River'. New - Savanna Crowsnest Pass (Code=20978) and Warrensville Centre (Code=20979) 2013-04-09T00:00:00 Hamlet: Hamlet Point processed from GNS database (May 27, 2013) to replace ADP Hamlet Point Shape due to incorrect point locations, in cases. Revised Hamlet Point shape file provided to Altalis for future Hamlet update. Update - location adjustment Beaver Lake (0617), Bottrel (0988), Gregoire Lake Estates (1401) and Namao (0997). New - Municipal Codes from Municipal Affairs 2013-05-01T00:00:00 Location correction of Tilley 2014-03-01T00:00:00 Locality Belvedere was input twice in GNS. Confirmation from the County of Barrhead, the one described in 83J01SW is to keep and the one in 83G16NW will be removed. 2014-05-01T00:00:00 Reload SDE layer. Hamlet name Hobbema should be Maskwacis 2014-08-01T00:00:00 Hamlet Minburn - New (O.C. 152/2015 June 24, 2015). Hamlet Point processed from SDW delivered Hamlet Point Shape file (Dec. 1, 2015) which replaces the Hamlet Point that was processed from GNS data base (May 15, 2013) and amalgamated into the Culture Point layer. 2015-12-01T00:00:00 New Hamlet - Galahad (O.C. 259/2015 Nov. 17, 2015). Strome (O.C. 260/2015 January 1, 2016). 2016-02-01T00:00:00 Willingdon - former Village dissolve (O.C. 240/2017 July 12; Code = 0352). Botha - former Village dissolve (O.C. 239/2017 July 12, 2017; Code = 0038). 2017-09-01T00:00:00 Locality: Iron River removed (Status change to Hamlet). Hamlet: a. Cochrane Lake - Location moved b. Iron River - New (Status change from Locality. CULPT_CODE = 6570) 2018-02-13T00:00:00 Dissolution of Grande Cache re-designated as a hamlet (O.C. 361/2018 Nov 27; Code = 0131) 2019-02-04T00:00:00 Status Change The Village of Ferintosh (O.C. 190/2019 Oct 08, 2019). The Village of Ferintosh dissolves and becomes a hamlet in Camrose County. Dissolution Removed the Hamlet of Mackay Removed the Hamlet of Pinedale 2020-01-06T00:00:00 Update - Town of Granum - Dissolve Town of Granum into MD of Willow Creek (O.C. 17/2020. Feb 1. 2020) - Village of Gadsby - Dissolve Village of Gadsby into County of Stettler (O.C. 16/2020. Feb 1. 2020) - Gaoline Alley - Add new hamelet for Gasoline Alley 2020-04-08T00:00:00 Update - Village of Hythe(O.C. 168/2021) dissolved and become hamlets 2021-01-01T00:00:00 Update - Village of Cereal(O.C. 384/2020), Dewberry(O.C. 385/2020), and Wabamun(O.C. 386/2020) dissolved and become Hamlets 2021-01-11T00:00:00 Correction - Correct hamlet location for the hamlet of Wabamun 2021-02-08T00:00:00 Update - Village of Hythe(O.C. 168/2021) dissolved and become Hamlets 2021-07-05T00:00:00 Corrections - Added point type "Hamlet" to Hythe 2021-07-14T00:00:00 Hamlets were updated as per the latest Municipal Codes Document. The Hamlet of Ribstone is now listed as a locality. Hamlet points were aligned to the centroid of Hamlet polygons. 2024-08-01T00:00:00 Update - the village of Caroline became a hamlet by amalgamating with Clearwater County (O.C. 358/2024); the village of Halkirk became a hamlet by dissolving into the County of Paintearth No.18. (O.C. 362/2024) 2025-02-03T00:00:00 Updated spelling of Rose Lynn to Roselynn. 2025-03-05T00:00:00 Name change: the locality called Morley has changed to Mînî Thnî as per the Canadian Geographical Names Database. Classification change: At the request of Municipal Affairs, Waterton Park is changing from a Hamlet to a Locality. 2025-04-03T00:00:00 1266 EPSG 6.11(9.3.0.0) BaseFeatures.GDB.BF_GEO_CULTURE_POINT Municipal Codes and GNS Placename database Alberta Municipal Affairs (Municipal Codes) and Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Feature Class 1266 CULPT_NAME Culture Point name Alberta Municipal Affairs and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Municipal Codes and GNS Place name Database Alberta Municipal Affairs (Municipal Codes) and Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (GNS) CULPT_NAME String 80 0 0 CULPT_CODE Hamlet code no. and sequential unique alphanumeric code no. for Locality and Townsite Alberta Municipal Affairs and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specifications Municipal Codes and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Alberta Municipal Affairs (Municipal Codes) and Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (Specification) CULPT_CODE String 5 0 0 TYPE The type of Culture Point feature Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Municipal Codes and Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Alberta Municipal Affairs (Municipal Codes) and Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (Specification) TYPE String 20 0 0 SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features Shape Geometry 4 0 0 GLOBALID GLOBALID GlobalID 38 0 0 OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. OBJECTID OID 4 10 0