Wrentham, Alberta facts for kids

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Hamlet
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Wrentham Location in Alberta
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Region	Southern Alberta
Census division	2
Municipal district	County of Warner No. 5
Founded	1910
Incorporated	1913
Government
• Type	Unincorporated
Elevation	946 m (3,104 ft)
Population  (1991)
• Total	58
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Postal code span	T0K 2P0
Area code(s)	+1-403
Highways	Highway 61
Waterways	Chin Reservoir

Wrentham (/ˈrɛntəm/) is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located southeast of the intersection of the Veteran Memorial Highway (Highway 36) and the historic Red Coat Trail (Highway 61), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of the Village of Stirling, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the Town of Taber and 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of the Village of Foremost.

The hamlet was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway after Wrentham, a village in Suffolk, England.

The hamlet is in Census Division No. 2 and in the federal riding of Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner.

Demographics

Wrentham recorded a population of 58 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.