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The town of Cochrane is 4,030 feet [1,228.34 m] above sea level.<1>
Time Zone: Cochrane lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time.
Communities that are also named Cochrane can be found in:
At the time of the 2006 StatCan Census, Cochrane had a population of 13,760 people<3>. This is an increase of 14.28% since the previous Census (with 12,041 people in 2001).
With 13,760 people, Cochrane represented 0.42% of the total population of Alberta, making it the province's 14th most populous community.
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<4> | 2006
Population | Change
Since 2001 |
| | Airdrie |  E | 19 mi [30.58 km] | 28,927 | 41.75% increase |
| | Benchlands |  W | 16 mi [25.75 km] | --- | |
| | Bottrel |  N | 13 mi [20.92 km] | --- | |
| | Bragg Creek |  S | 17 mi [27.36 km] | --- | |
| | Calgary |  SE | 17 mi [27.36 km] | 988,193 | 12.42% increase |
| | Ghost Lake | W | 13 mi [20.92 km] | 78 | 13.04% increase |
To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Cochrane.
Website for Cochrane
| Official Website: | www.town.cochrane.ab.ca/ |
If you know of a local history or genealogy society for Cochrane, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.
Search for Local BusinessesGoogle's 'Search-by-Location' has proven to be a useful tool by people who planned visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Cochrane. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.
For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.
If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).
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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Cochrane: Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Cochrane? Please visit the Map Page for Cochrane. |
Footnotes
| <1> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cochrane - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | We use the term 'historic' broadly and while it generally means that the community no longer exists, it can also mean that the community still exists but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we want to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cochrane, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Unless noted otherwise, the population counts we use are estimates. Our population values come different sources and should not be considered official. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line distance between Cochrane and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
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