Richdale is a hamlet in east-central Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2.[2][3] It is located on Highway 9 approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of the Town of Hanna, 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of the Village of Youngstown and 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of the City of Brooks. Previously an incorporated community, Richdale was incorporated as a village in 1916, it was dissolved from village status on June 2, 1931.[4]
^"Table 6a: Population by census divisions and subdivisions showing reorganization of rural areas, 1931-1946". Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1946. Vol. I: Population. Ottawa: Dominion Bureau of Statistics. 1949. p. 418.