Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer | |
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City | |
| City of Red Deer | |
| Motto(s): Education, Industry and Progress | |
City boundaries | |
| Coordinates: 52°16′05″N 113°48′40″W / 52.26806°N 113.81111°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Alberta |
| Planning region | Red Deer |
| Municipal district | Red Deer County |
| Founded | 1882 |
| • Village | May 31, 1894 |
| • Town | June 11-12, 1901 |
| • City | March 25, 1913 |
| Named after | Red Deer River |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ken Johnston |
| • Governing body |
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| • City Manager | Tara Lodewyk |
| • MPs | Burton Bailey (CPC) |
| • MLAs | Jason Stephan (UCP), Adriana LaGrange (UCP) |
| Area (2021) | |
| • Land | 104.34 km2 (40.29 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 65.93 km2 (25.46 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 104.34 km2 (40.29 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 855 m (2,805 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• City | 100,844 |
| • Density | 966.5/km2 (2,503/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 99,846 |
| • Urban density | 1,514.4/km2 (3,922/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 100,844 |
| • Metro density | 966.5/km2 (2,503/sq mi) |
| • Municipal census (2019) | 101,002 |
| • Estimate (2020) | 106,736 |
| Demonym | Red Deerian |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
| Forward sortation areas | |
| Area code(s) | 403, 587, 825, 368 |
| Highways | 2, 2A, 11, 11A, 595 |
| Waterways | Red Deer River, Waskasoo Creek, Piper Creek |
| Website | reddeer |
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Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Red Deer serves central Alberta, and its key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education. It is surrounded by Red Deer County and borders on Lacombe County. The city is in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills, alongside the Red Deer River.