County of Warner No. 5


The County of Warner No. 5 is a municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 2 just north of the United States border, its municipal office is located in the Village of Warner.

History

Warner was originally organised as a rural municipality in 1912. The County of Warner No. 5 was established in 1954.

Demographics

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Warner No. 5 recorded a population of 3,847 living in 816 of its 941 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 3,841. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.
In the 2011 Census, the County of Warner No. 5 had a population of 3,841 living in 820 of its 956 total dwellings, a 5.1% change from its 2006 adjusted population of 3,654. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2011.

Tourism and attractions

The County of Warner No. 5 comprises approximately 50 townships, and is bordered
on the south by the Canadian-United States border, It is composed of the former
Municipal District of Warner No. 36 and a portion of the former Municipal
District of Sugar City No. 37.
The following is the events that lead to the incorporation of the County of Warner No. 5:

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the County of Warner No. 5:
;Cities
  • none
;Towns
  • Milk River
  • Raymond
;Villages
  • Coutts
  • Stirling
  • Warner
;Summer villages
  • none
The following hamlets are located within the County of Warner No. 5:
;Hamlets
  • New Dayton
  • Wrentham
The following localities are located within the County of Warner No. 5:
;Localities
  • Clarinda
  • Conrad
  • Craddock
  • Elmspring
  • Judson
  • Knappen
  • Lucky Strike
  • Masinasin
  • Maybutt
  • McNab
  • St. Kilda
;Other places
  • Allerston
  • Mammoth
  • One-Seventeen
  • Two-Fifteen

Education

and Horizon School Division No. 67 provide education within the boundaries of the County of Warner No. 5.

Early school districts

Listed below are the former school districts that once provided education within the County of Warner No. 5.
Name & SD No.ImageLocationDate EstablishedDate Closed/
Disbanded		Notes
Galt/Stirling No. 64729 - 6 - 19 - W419 November 1901Originally named Galt, the name was changed to Stirling in 1957.
Raymond No. 7008 - 6 - 20 - W41 May 1902
Mammoth No. 137924 - 5 - 20 - W49 August 1905
Warner No. 167510 - 4 - 17 - W431 July 1907
Tyrells Lake No. 200720-5-17-W48 July 19091939Demolished 1940s
Milk River Valley/Masinasin No. 202415 - 2 - 13 - W424 August 1909Originally named Milk River Valley, the name was changed to Masinasin in 1941.
Milk River No. 205615 - 2 - 13 - W48 October 1909
Grain No. 259715-1-11-W425 November 1911
West Butte/St. Kilda No. 274711-1-12-W425 May 1912Originally named West Butte, the name was changed to St. Kilda in 1920.
Indian Rock No. 254018-1-12 -W4 moved? to 11 - 1 - 12 - W425 August 1911
Locke No. 273031-1-13 -W4 Moved? to 28 - 2 - 13 - W410 May 1912
Clarinda No. 24598-1-13 -W410 June 1911
Verburg No. 243933-1-14 -W410 May 1911
Sexton Creek No. 25109-1-14 -W4 moved? to 33 - 1 - 14 - W424 July 1911
Lind No. 217034-1-16 -W425 April 1910
John Joes No. 219824-1-17-W426 May 1910Also spelled John Jo
Two Fifteen No. 215320-2-15-W426 March 1910 March 26Moved to Milk River for a class room when the district was joined with Milk River Consolidated District 12, December 1945
Sleepy Hollow No. 263424-2-15-W425 January 1912
Lucky Strike No. 258917-3-11-W49 November 1911
Prairie Round No. 215221-3-12-W426 March 1910 March 26-
Patience No. 215623-6-17-W426 March 1910
Maybutt32-6-19-W419101924Classes were first held at the Presbyterian Church, a vacant Chinese restaurant and later the Prairie Queen Hotel at the corner of First Avenue and Front Street, Maybutt. Plans to build a school house never got past the planning stages and children from Maybutt were bused to the neighbouring town of Stirling in 1924.
Kippen No. 208034-2-12-W49 December 19091933Kippenville Consolidated 7 created in 1915 by Kippen & Green Villa disorganized in 1933
Bankview No. 304216-1-17-W419131953
Craddock/Bluesky No. 345633 - 81 - 2 - W615 February 1917Originally named Craddock, the name was changed to Bluesky in 1947.
Coutts No. 35604 - 1 - 15 - W430 October 1917
North Wrentham No. 36187 - 16 - W418 February 1918
Wrentham No. 361736 - 6 - 17 - W418 February 1918
Conrad No. 407711 - 61 - 12 - W43 November 1921