Castor

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Castor

Total population

929

Elevation816 m

Land area2.63 km²

Coordinates52.22°, -111.90°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Castor is a tourist town in Alberta, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 861, approximately 143 kilometres (89 mi) east of the city of Red Deer. It has an elevation 816 metres (2,677 ft).

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Darcy Tucker

Canadian ice hockey player

B

Brian C. Downey

Canadian politician (1950-2012)

C

Cliff Downey

Canadian politician

D

Dan Fraser

Canadian businessman

R

Ron Walters

Canadian ice hockey player

W

William Wyse

Canadian politician

D

Dave Adams

Canadian football player

J

Jacqueline Dumas

Canadian writer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Alberta

• Castor Hutterite Colony
  6.5 mi away
• Halkirk
  11.7 mi away · pop. 112
• Suncrest Hutterite Colony
  12.1 mi away
• South Bend Hutterite Colony
  14.2 mi away
• Alliance
  15.8 mi away · pop. 107
• Byemoor Hutterite Colony
  16.6 mi away
• Gadsby Hutterite Colony
  19.9 mi away
• Brownfield
  21 mi away
• Endiang
  21.2 mi away
• Hackett
  21.9 mi away
• Scapa
  24.1 mi away
• Lone Pine Hutterite Colony
  24.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Castor

A preacher's frontier

Martin W. Holdom · 1996

Glacial Geology

Research Council of Alberta. · 1956

Survey of Castor

Alberta. Publicity Bureau. · 1971

Glacial geology of Castor district, Alberta

Gravenor, Conrad Percival · 1956

16 cemeteries in the Brownfield, Castor, Coronation, Halkirk area

Alberta Genealogical Society · 1997

Geology of the Battle River coalfield, east-central Alberta

F. M. Dawson · 1993

Designing websites for every audience

Ilise Benun · 2003

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Wood Frog

Lithobates sylvaticus

Seen 2026-08-13

rush skeletonplant

Lygodesmia juncea

Seen 2026-08-02

Gray Partridge

Perdix perdix

Seen 2026-07-23

Two-grooved Milkvetch

Astragalus bisulcatus

Seen 2026-06-21

Missouri Milkvetch

Astragalus missouriensis

Seen 2026-06-21

Greater White-fronted Goose

Anser albifrons

Seen 2026-04-13

Tundra Swan

Cygnus columbianus

Seen 2026-04-13

Sandhill Crane

Antigone canadensis

Seen 2026-04-13

Snowy Owl

Bubo scandiacus

Seen 2026-02-02

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers