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Year: 1901  |  Province: Northwest Territories

Cottonwood, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Cottonwood was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 301. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.550°N, 104.971°W.

Population

In 1901, Cottonwood had a population of 301: 179 male and 122 female residents. Population density was 3.3 people per square mile.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Cottonwood shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 24 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (13 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families63
Number of females122
Number of males179
Number of married females48
Number of married males50
Number of single females73
Number of single males125
Number of widowed females1
Number of widowed males4
POP F122
POP M179
POP TOT301
Total population301
Buildings & housing (1 variable)
VariableValue
Number of houses63
Agriculture (1 variable)
VariableValue
Total area (acres)58,685
Other recorded variables (9 variables)
VariableValue
AREA AC58,685
FAMILIES63
HOUSES63
MARRIED F48
MARRIED M50
SINGLE F73
SINGLE M125
WIDOWED F1
WIDOWED M4

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Cottonwood, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/cottonwood-nt204012-1901/.