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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
20260123
ArcGIS Metadata
1.0
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: https://www.altalis.com/
Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class
ArcGIS Pro 3.0
File Geodatabase
3.0
FGDB
ZIP
Shapefile
3.0
SHP
ZIP
https://geospatial.alberta.ca/titan/rest/services/boundaries/municipal_communities_public/MapServer
REST
boundaries/municipal_communities_public (Map Server)
Esri map service containing populated places in Alberta
https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/home/item.html?id=24c8aa099c5b470c8da41afcb72bfac4
HTTPS
Communities
Esri map service portal page with linkage to Esri feature service and open web map service (WMS)
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.Data@gov.ab.ca
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
https://www.altalis.com/map;id=117
HTTPS
Geo-Administrative Areas
Web page for ordering Geo-Administrative Areas
Town
2026-01-19T00:00:00
2001-06-01T00:00:00
2026-01-19T00:00:00
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
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Town dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Towns in Alberta. Town is a municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. The formation of a Town can occur if a majority of buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square metres and there is a population of 1000 or more.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
The Town dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Towns in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes.
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
7804277374
9820 - 106 Street NW
14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
Edmonton
Alberta
T5K 2J6
CA
PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca
Urban municipality
Towns
Municipality
Urban Municipality
Towns
Municipality
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.
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
Public
Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification
https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/Pages/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification.aspx
Towns in Alberta are defined by Orders-in-Council. Besides name, each town has a numeric identifier (i.e. 0387 for Banff) designated by Alberta Municipal Affairs documented in the Municipal Codes. The Municipal Codes document also contains the number of Alberta municipalities by type (i.e. City, Improvement District, etc.). Altalis Ltd. is the designated agent of Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) who provides the monthly update of the Town shape file to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, if there are changes commencing Nov. 2005.
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Alberta, Canada
Source data was ADP Municipal Boundary Town shapefile as part of a zip file delivered to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta monthly that contains shapefiles of all municipality types maintained by Altalis.
Town.shp
Altalis Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta
Altalis Ltd.
Town.shp is part of a zip file delivered to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta monthly that contains shapefiles of all municipality types maintained by Altalis.
Produced by Alberta Data Partnership on behalf of Government of Alberta
Base Features initial compilation
2001-06-01T00:00:00
Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
Provincial Geospatial Centre
AEP.GDAMetadata@gov.ab.ca
Source data was ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Names were populated according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas specification standard. Nanton, Stettler and Wembley had intersection issues which did not get loaded. As there were no boundary update differences since last Base Features Town version, and as a quick workaround, these 3 towns were taken out from the previous departmental Alberta Data Partnerships Town layer and loaded into Town shape layer. As these 3 towns were compiled to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas specification standard, and thus had slight geometric variation from the most recent boundary representation in the ADP Town shipment.
2005-11-01T00:00:00
The latest MS Excel spreadsheet of the Municipal Codes is downloaded from the Alberta Municipal Affairs website and converted to dBase III format. The Town table (TOWN_NAME and TOWN_CODE) of the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification, is updated according to the Altalis Ltd. Municipal Boundary Change Tracking spreadsheet, and converted from MS Word to dBase III format. The original source Town Shape file received from Altalis is processed to obtain a formatted Shape file preserved with the same original spatial accuracy. A 2nd process is then run to obtain polygons attributed according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Town table standard (i.e. TOWN_NAME and TOWN_CODE). The formatted shape polygon attribute values are validated against the Municipal Codes with the TOWN_NAME normalized with upper/lower case according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Town table.
2005-11-01T00:00:00
Bowden: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 290/2008). Innisfail: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 344/2008). Penhold: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 345/2008).
2008-08-01T00:00:00
Carstairs: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 402/2008). Okotoks: Annexation of land from county (O.C. 401/2008) Waiting confirmation on the NE15-20-29-4.
2008-10-01T00:00:00
Source data was March 2009 ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Blackfalds: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 102/2009). Didsbury: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 17/2009). Lamont: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 16/2009). Redcliff: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 15/2009). Sexsmith: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 14/2009).
2009-03-01T00:00:00
Source data was May 2009 ADP municipal Boundary Town shape file. Chestermere: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 130/2009).
2009-05-01T00:00:00
Coalhurst: Boundary modification due to annexation (O.C. 564/2009)
2009-07-01T00:00:00
Nanton: Modification to boundary (O.C. not available)
2009-07-01T00:00:00
Black Diamond: Correction of boundary. Fairview: Annexation of land (O.C. 444/2009). Hinton: Annexation of land (O.C. 441/2009). Pincher Creek: Annexation of land (O.C. 442/2009). Raymond: Annexation of land (O.C. 221/2009).
2009-10-01T00:00:00
Tolfield: Boundary modification due to annexation (O.C. 443/2009).
2010-01-01T00:00:00
Crossfield: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 188/2010). Strathmore: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 135/2010) and correction to include N.W. ΒΌ Sec 10-24-25-4. Hanna: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 228/2010). St. Paul: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 226/2010) & correction of linework. Sundre: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 224/2010). Bonnyville: Correction of linework. Vermillion: Correction of linework.
2010-08-01T00:00:00
Lacombe: Status changed to city (O.C. 223/2010 Currency 20100714). Stettler: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 276/2010 Currency 20100910).
2010-11-01T00:00:00
Bruderheim: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 402/2010).
2011-02-01T00:00:00
Killam: Annexation of land.
2011-04-01T00:00:00
Ponoka: annexation (O.C. 124/2011); St. Paul: annexation (O.C. 191/2011). Strathmore: land removed (O.C. 126/2011)
2011-06-01T00:00:00
Drayton Valley (O.C. 476/2011 Dec. 1, 2011) - Annexation. High River (O.C. 464/2011 Nov. 24, 2011) - Annexation. Hinton (O.C. 477/2011 Dec. 1, 2011) - Boundary change: Land separated from the town & annexed to Yellowhead County.
2012-02-01T00:00:00
Peace River - annexation (O.C. 10/2012 Jan. 20, 2012)
2012-04-01T00:00:00
Peace River: Annexation (O.C. 100/2012 March 15, 2012), St. Paul: Annexation (O.C. 134/2012 March 22, 2012), Sundre: Correction (O.C. 224/2010 July 14, 2010).
2012-05-01T00:00:00
Drayton Valley - annexation (O.C. 176/2012 May 312, 2012)
2012-07-01T00:00:00
Magrath - annexation (O.C. 212/2012 June 21, 2012)
2012-08-01T00:00:00
Atthabasca - annexation (O.C. 182/2007)
2013-07-01T00:00:00
Stavely - Annexation (O.C. 197/2013). Three Hills - Annexation (O.C. 229/2013).
2013-09-01T00:00:00
Wainwright - Annexation (O.C. 140/2014)
2014-05-01T00:00:00
Town of Chestermere changed to the City of Chestermere effective January 1, 2015 (O.C. 499/2014 December 19, 2014)
2015-02-01T00:00:00
Devon - Annexation of land (O.C. 115/2015 March 27, 2015)
2015-06-01T00:00:00
Sylvan Lake - Annexation of land (O.C. 20/2016 Feb. 2, 2016)
2016-03-01T00:00:00
Coalhurst - Annexation of land (O.C. 54/2016 March 8, 2016)
2016-05-01T00:00:00
Peace River - Take out vertices and snapped boundary lines/arcs
2016-08-01T00:00:00
Claresholm - Annexation (O.C. 4/2017 Jan 11, 2017). Thorsby - Name change from village to town (O.C. 344/2016 Dec. 13, 2016). Three Hills - Boundary correction.
2017-03-01T00:00:00
Beaumont - Annexation (O.C. 302/2016 Nov. 22, 2016. Effective January 1, 2017). Raymond - Annexation (O.C. 219/2016 July 13, 2016)
2017-05-01T00:00:00
Morinville - Boundary update. Took out a piece of extra road along the west side of the boundary. Okotos - Annexation (O.C. 199/20117 June 13, 2017).
2017-09-01T00:00:00
Bruderheim - Annexation (O.C. 260/2017 Sept. 14, 2017). Milk River - Land separated from the town and annexed to the County of Warner (O.C. 261/2017 Sept. 14, 2017)
2017-11-01T00:00:00
Milk River - Annexation (O.C. 263/2017 Sept. 14, 2017)
2017-12-01T00:00:00
Millet - Annexation (O.C. 442/2017 Dec. 13, 2017)
2018-02-13T00:00:00
Bon Accord - Boundary change (O.C. 32/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Bowden - Boundary change (O.C. 34/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Coaldale - Boundary change (O.C. 29/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Gibbons - Boundary change (O.C. 35/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Nobleford - From Village to Town (O.C. 28/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Okotoks - Boundary change (O.C. 30/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Penhold - Boundary change (O.C. 31/2018 Feb. 21, 2018)
2018-04-01T00:00:00
Viking - Annexation (O.C. 164/2018 May 29, 2018)
2018-08-01T00:00:00
Coaldale - Boundary correction
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Updated boundary for The Town of Coaldale (Correction)
2018-11-06T00:00:00
Update City of Beaumont - status change (O.C. 395/2018. Dec 11. 2018) Grande Cache β status change (O.C. 361/2018. Nov 27. 2018) Wainwright β annexation (O.C. 357/2018. Nov 27. 2018)
2019-02-13T00:00:00
Update Town of Cochrane β Annexation (O.C. 115/2019. June 27. 2019)
2019-08-19T00:00:00
Correction - Corrections made in NW-31-10-26-W4M based on (O.C. 10/1989. Jan 12. 1989) and Subdivision Plan 1812040
2019-12-03T00:00:00
Annexation - Town of Whitecourt - Annexation (O.C. 276/2019. Dec 3. 2019) - Town of Taber - Annexation (O.C. 275/2019. Dec 3. 2019)
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) - Town of Black Diamond - Annexation (O.C. 15/2020. Jan 28. 2020) - Town of Banff - Boundary change for Town of Banff revert boundary back to 1999 plan 88090CLSRAB (O.C. 275/2019. Dec 3. 2019)
2020-04-08T00:00:00
Corrections - Corrections were made to Town of Taber to account for road widening shown in plan 151 3422
2020-07-03T00:00:00
Annexation - Town of Picture Butte annexed parts of NW 1/4 Sec. 2-11-21-W4M (O.C. 171/2020. Jun 03. 2020) Corrections - Town of Black Diamond (O.C. 15/2020. Jan 28. 2020)
2020-08-17T00:00:00
Correction - Picture Butte did not follow cadastral lines exactly - Black Diamond - repair gaps with town of Turner Valley following ATS grids
2020-08-28T00:00:00
Correct the Town of Black Diamond to follow Plans 5503EH & 2893FT
2020-09-03T00:00:00
Annexation - Town of High River (O.C. 380/2020. Dec 09. 2020) - Town of Oyen (O.C. 382/2020. Dec 09. 2020) - Town of Claresholm (O.C. 383/2020. Dec 09. 2020)
2021-02-08T00:00:00
Correction - Town of High River (O.C. 380/2020. Dec 09. 2020) Corrections to include Plan 961 0847
2021-03-08T00:00:00
Annexation - Town of Olds annex NW and E parts of Sec.4-33-1-W5M (O.C. 361/2021. Dec 08. 2021)
2022-01-05T00:00:00
Correction - Town of High River (O.C. 380/2020. Dec 09. 2020) Corrections made to include road allowance east of SE36-18-29-W4M.
2022-03-04T00:00:00
Amalgamation - the Town of Black Diamond and the Town of Turner Valley to form the Town of Diamond Valley (O.C. 156/2022; May 25, 2022)
Update - boundary for the Town of Fox Creek (O.C. 405/2022; Dec. 14, 2022)
2023-01-04T00:00:00
Annexation - Claresholm from the municipal district of Willow Creek No. 26 (O.C. 213/2023. Nov 29, 2023)
2024-01-10T00:00:00
High Level - Annexation from the Mackenzie County (O.C. 195/2024. June 20, 2024)
Oyen - Annexation from the Special Area No. 3 (O.C. 196/2024. June 20, 2024)
Raymond - Annexation from The County of Warner, No. 5 (O.C. 197/2024. June 20, 2024)
2024-08-01T00:00:00
City of Spruce Grove - Annexation from the Town of Stony Plain (O.C. 365/2025. November 26, 2025)
Town of Bowden - Annexation from the County of Red Deer (O.C. 364/2025. November 26, 2025)
2026-01-19T00:00:00
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OID
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Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
TOWN_NAME
Town name
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Municipal Codes
Alberta Municipal Affairs
TOWN_NAME
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TOWN_CODE
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Municipal Codes
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Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
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Double
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0