13 Facts About Mill Woods

Mill Woods is a residential area in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Mill Woods is adjacent to three other residential areas including The Meadows to the east across 34 Street, and Southeast Edmonton and Ellerslie to the south and southwest respectively across Anthony Henday Drive.

Development of Mill Woods began in the early 1970s and was one of the first areas of Edmonton to move away from the grid system.

Mill Woods subdivision is situated in land that was once earmarked for an Indian reserve to belong to the Papaschase, a Metis-Cree band that signed treaty between 1876 and 1891.

Southeastern areas of Mill Woods suffered heavy damage from the Edmonton tornado in 1987.

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Mill Woods was named for Mill Creek, which bisects the northeast portion of the area, as well as the formerly wooded nature of the area.

Communities within Mill Woods are connected by an arterial ring road, Mill Woods Road, along its east, south, and west extent and by 38 Avenue along its north extent.

Smaller collector ring roads that intersect Mill Woods Road connect the multiple neighbourhoods typically found within each community.

Mill Woods contains Mill Woods Town Centre, the Grey Nuns Community Hospital, an Edmonton Fire Service station.

Mill Woods has twenty-one Edmonton Public elementary schools, eleven Edmonton Catholic elementary schools, four public junior high schools, three Catholic junior high schools.

Previously, Mill Woods has been home to the Mill Woods Campus of MacEwan University.

Total population of Mill Woods according to the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census is 78,322.

Two freeways run by Mill Woods including, Whitemud Drive on the north side and the Anthony Henday Drive on the south; both running east–west.