Lilla Edet

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Lilla Edet

|image_skyline = Hjärtums kyrka.jpg

|image_caption = Hjärtum Church

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Sweden

|subdivision_type3 = Municipality

|subdivision_name3 = Lilla Edet Municipality

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Västra Götaland County

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_name1 = Västergötland
and Bohuslän

|area_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010 |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |language=Swedish |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |archivedate=27 January 2012 |url-status=live |accessdate=10 January 2012 }}

|area_total_km2 = 4.26

|population_as_of = 31 December 2010

|population_footnotes =

|population_total = 4,862

|population_density_km2 = 1142

|timezone = CET

|utc_offset = +1

|timezone_DST = CEST

|utc_offset_DST = +2

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Lilla Edet is a locality and the seat of Lilla Edet Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 4,862 inhabitants in 2010.

Lilla Edet was the smallest of three settlements that were burnt down in Sweden on 25 June 1888. The wooden towns of Sundsvall and Umeå were almost completely destroyed.{{cite journal|last=Rohland|first=Eleonora|title=From Wood to Stone: The Risk Management of Swiss Re in The Sundsvall Fire 1888|journal=Environment and History|date=1 February 2011|volume=17|issue=1|pages=153–169|doi=10.3197/096734011X12922359173096|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225026752|accessdate=29 May 2014}} The triple fire was widely reported and one collection in California raised $5,000{{cite news|title=Sufferers by Fire in Sweden|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18880724.2.70|accessdate=29 May 2014|newspaper=Daily Alta California|date=24 July 1888}} and blankets and tents were sent from New Zealand.{{cite news|title=News|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NEM18880827.2.13&cl=&srpos=0&e=-------10--1----0--&st=1|accessdate=30 May 2014|newspaper=Nelson Evening Mail|date=27 August 1888}}

The town Lilla Edet is situated on the eastern side of the Göta älv, a main river on the west coast of Sweden. It became known as a halt there. The area was known locally as Lilla Edet in comparison to Stora Edet, situated north of Lilla Edet and today known as Trollhättan. However, for a long time the official name of Lilla Edet was Bergaström.