Fort McMurray
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municipality in Alberta, Canada
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- Alberta
- Region
- Northern Alberta
- Specialized municipality
- RM of Wood Buffalo
- Village
- May 6, 1947
- Town
- December 29, 1948
- New town
- June 30, 1964
- City
- September 1, 1980
- Name changed
- June 1, 1962
- Amalgamated
- April 1, 1995
- Mayor
- Sandy Bowman
- Governing body
- Wood Buffalo Municipal Council Mike Allen Ty Brandt Lance Bussieres Luana Bussieres Don Scott Jennifer Vardy Kendrick Cardinal Greg "Cowboy" Marcel Stu Wigle Kyle Vandecasteyen
- Mp
- Laila Goodridge ( CPC )
- Mla
- Brian Jean ( UCP ) Tany Yao ( UCP )
- Urban
- 52.17 km (20.14 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 260 m (850 ft)
- Urban density
- 1,303.5/km (3,376/sq mi)
- Municipal census 2021
- 72,917
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Urban Service Area of Fort McMurray
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
- Population
- 68002
- Area
- 52.17
- Elevation
- 260
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Official website
- www.rmwb.ca
- Image
- Fort mcmurray aerial.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Fort McMurray
- name
- Fort McMurray
- Commons category
- Fort McMurray
- postal code
- T9K
- native label
- Fort McMurray
- time of earliest written record
- 1870-00-00
- inception
- 1947-05-06
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Fort McMurray
- Commons gallery
- Fort McMurray, Alberta
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Encyclopedic overview
Fort McMurray (/məkˈmʌri/ mək-MURR-ee) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant role in the development of the national petroleum industry. The 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire led to the evacuation of its residents and caused widespread damage.
Formerly a city, Fort McMurray became an urban service area when it amalgamated with Improvement District No. 143 on April 1, 1995, to create the Municipality of Wood Buffalo (renamed the RM of Wood Buffalo on August 14, 1996). Despite its current official designation of urban service area, many locals, politicians and the media still refer to Fort McMurray as a city. Fort McMurray was known simply as McMurray between 1947 and 1962.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fort McMurray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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