County of Forty Mile No. 8
municipal district in Alberta, Canada
The County of Forty Mile No. 8 is a municipal district in south eastern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 1, southwest of Medicine Hat. Its municipal office is located in the Village of Foremost.
The County of Forty Mile is filled with several ghost towns such as Nemiskam, Orion, Conquerville, Altorado, Conrad, and the partially abandoned Etzikom.
Geography
Communities and localities
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Forty Mile No. 8 had a population of 3,600 living in 861 of its 994 total private dwellings, a change of 0.5% from its 2016 population of 3,581. With a land area of 7,163.61 km2 (2,765.89 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.5/km2 (1.3/sq mi) in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Forty Mile No. 8 had a population of 3,581 living in 865 of its 968 total private dwellings, a 7.3% change from its 2011 population of 3,336.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “County of Forty Mile No. 8” is municipal district in Alberta, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through County, Forty and Mile, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “municipal district in Alberta, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5472982. Authority coordinates are 49.479, -111.440. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2016 and 2011.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “County of Forty Mile No. 8” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.