Kinuso | |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Northern Alberta |
Subdivision Type3: | Census Division |
Subdivision Name3: | No. 17 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | Big Lakes County |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Big Lakes County Council |
Area Footnotes: | (2021) |
Area Land Km2: | 0.58 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 150 |
Population Density Km2: | 257.8 |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −6 |
Coordinates: | 55.3331°N -115.4336°W |
Elevation M: | 610 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | 2 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Blank1 Info: | Lesser Slave Lake |
Kinuso (Cree: script=Cans|ᑭᓄᓭᐤ, Cree: kinosêw) is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Big Lakes County, and surrounded by the Swan River First Nation reserve. It is located approximately 48km (30miles) west of Slave Lake and 71 km east of High Prairie along Highway 2, south of the southern shore of Lesser Slave Lake.
The name Kinuso comes from the Cree word Cree: kinosêw 'fish'.
Kinuso was incorporated as a village until it dissolved on September 1, 2009.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinuso had a population of 150 living in 73 of its 93 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 182. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinuso had a population of 182 living in 77 of its 102 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 276. With a land area of 0.59km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[3]