Schuler | |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Schuler |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southern Alberta |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 1 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | Cypress County |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | Cypress County Council |
Established Title: | Established |
Area Footnotes: | (2021) |
Area Land Km2: | 0.6 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 86 |
Population Density Km2: | 142.8 |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −07:00 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −06:00 |
Coordinates: | 50.3314°N -110.1075°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 403, 587, 825 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Schuler is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cypress County, located 4km (02miles) east of Highway 41, approximately 40km (30miles) northeast of Medicine Hat.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Schuler had a population of 86 living in 38 of its 42 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 72. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Schuler had a population of 72 living in 35 of its 39 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 63. With a land area of 0.6km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[2]
The settlement was named after Norman Banks Schuler, who settled a homestead in the area in the spring of 1910. In the fall of that year he was given the Post Office for the district. The hamlet itself acts as a service centre for people on the surrounding farms. Grain elevators were built by the Alberta Wheat Pool in 1924 and 1928 and by the Pioneer Grain Company in 1928.In July 1997, the last train hauled grain from the two remaining elevators. It is home to an ECS to Grade 9 school.