Alberta Rural Address Search

by Lookup

by Calculation

Notes

• If one method does not work, try the other. They use different methods and different data.
• These algorithms work well for Rural Alberta
• 'by Lookup' has some functionality outside Rural Alberta
• 'by Calc' works only for Rural Alberta

Rural Address Interval Numbers

Rural Address Interval Numbering

• Interval Numbers are the spot of initial access to the Section. Once inside the section, there may be further Unit Numbers.
• A Section of land is a square one mile by one mile
• Address Interval Numbers are assigned along each of the 4 borders of a Section
• Each mile long border is divided into 80 intervals of 40 metres each (1609.344 meters in a mile)
• Numbers increase from South to North and from East to West
• Even numbers are along the North and West borders
• Odd numbers are along the South and East borders

Range Road Numbering and Township Road Numbering

A Rural Address Sign

Rural Address References

• Understanding Rural Addressing
  County of Newell
  Brooks Alberta
  
• Rural Address Signs
  Infrastructure and Transportation
  Government of Alberta
  Revised December 2006
  
• Athabasca County
  Web Page
• MD of Foothills No. 31
  M.D. of Foothills' has unique rural street numbering system
  based on an extension of the City of Calgary's urban system.
• Saskatchewan Civic Address System
  Government of Saskatchewan
  saskatchewan.ca