Buck Creek Alberta Map

About Buck Creek, Alberta

Buck Creek is a hamlet in 36-47-7-W5, Alberta, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Buck Creek is located at 53.1039°N, 114.8956°W.

Buck Creek carves a quiet, persistent path through the low-lying terrain of the Alberta interior, finding its way toward the North Saskatchewan River. It lies 14.5 km south-south-east of Drayton Valley, AB (from Drayton Valley, AB: bearing 157°T), and is situated 11.3 km east-south-east of Violet Grove. The land around Buck Creek holds a heavy, dark moisture, where the shadows of spruce and aspen stretch long across the fields as the sun dips toward the horizon. Here, the light turns a bruised, autumnal gold that clings to the tall grasses, illuminating the subtle rise and fall of a landscape that has long been shaped by the slow movement of water. It is a quiet country, one that breathes with the cold, damp air rising from the drainage basins, where the silence is broken only by the thin, sharp call of birds navigating the thickets. The history of Buck Creek lies in the steady persistence of those who worked the earth and the timber, building a life from the dense, stubborn woods. Industry here maintains a pragmatic edge, defined by the extraction of resources and the seasonal labor that keeps the machinery of the region in motion. While the proximity to Eagle Point Provincial Park offers a reminder of the wilder, untouched stretches of the North Saskatchewan River, the daily life of Buck Creek stays grounded in the practicalities of agriculture and the maintenance of the land. People move through their days with a steady, deliberate focus, acknowledging the vastness of the horizon while tethering their ambitions to the seasonal cycle of the frost and the thaw.

About This Buck Creek Map Page

Explore Buck Creek, Alberta, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.103889, -114.895556. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Buck Creek includes the postal code (T7A), telephone area code (403, 587, 780, 825, 368). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Buck Creek is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.