Burdett Prairie Trails

Burdett, Alberta is a hamlet within the County of Forty Mile No. 8. The hamlet is located approximately 71 km (44 mi) west of Medicine Hat and 97 km (60 mi) east of Lethbridge on Highway 3.The community is named after Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, a railroad promoter. It was incorporated as a village on June 30, 1913, and later dissolved to hamlet status on January 1, 2003.

Burdett is known as the site of Canada’s first irrigation pivot. This pivot point and two towers were part of the first two water drive pivot systems introduced to Canada by Donald and Wyman Campbell. They arrived in the Burdett area on May 11, 1962, from the Valley Manufacturing Co., Valley, Nebraska.

As of 2021, Burdett had a population of 331 living in 105 of its 119 total private dwellings. This was a change of -17.5% from its 2016 population of 401.

Notable people from Burdett include Harry Edwin Strom, a Canadian politician of Swedish descent, who served as Premier of Alberta between 1968 and 1971.