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Ranch

Air quality index

35Good

WeatherAvg high 47°F

Coordinates55.09°, -113.87°

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

Overview

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm. These terms are most often applied to livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Western Canada, though there are ranches in other areas. People who own or operate a ranch are called ranchers, cattlemen, or stockgrowers. Ranching is also a method used to raise less common livestock such as horses, elk, American bison, ostrich, emu, and alpaca.

Geography

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

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

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).

Nearby places in Alberta

• Grosmont
  20.5 mi away
• Island Lake
  21.1 mi away · pop. 228
• Deep Creek Hutterite Colony
  29.5 mi away
• Flatbush
  29.6 mi away
• Athabasca
  34.3 mi away · pop. 2,965
• Jarvie
  43.8 mi away
• Donatville
  48.4 mi away
• New Pine Hutterite Colony
  49.7 mi away
• Sunny Bend Hutterite Colony
  50.1 mi away
• Marten Beach Subdivision
  50.6 mi away
• Canyon Creek
  51.7 mi away
• Rochester
  52 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 Ranch

Dairy farming, ranching, and mining in Alberta and Assiniboia

1889

Cattle kingdom

Edward Brado · 1984

Ranching in southern Alberta

Fred William Gershaw · 1900

Ranch Houses of the Alberta Foothills

Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch. · 1979

Ranching Women in Southern Alberta

Rachel Herbert · 2017

Literature associated with ranching in Southern Alberta

Ermeline Ann Ference · 1971

Alberta centennial century farm & ranch award

Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development · 2005

Ranching under the Arch

D. Larraine Andrews · 2019

Search results from Open Library.