Foothills County is a rural municipality located adjacent to and immediately south of the City of Calgary. The County covers an area of approximately 3,600 square kilometres in the foothills of sunny southern Alberta. It surrounds the Towns of Okotoks, High River, Turner Valley, and Black Diamond, the Village of Longview, and the Eden Valley Indian Reserve. The results of the 2006 Census indicated that 19,736 people live in Foothills County.