Amber Valley is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta, Canada, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Edmonton.

Amber Valley is the location of the Obadiah Place provincial heritage site, a homestead of one of the first African-American settler families.

Henry Parson Sneed, a clergyman and mason,[4] led a group of settlers from Oklahoma to an area by the Athabasca River.

[5] Because of a decline in population as people moved to cities and areas with more economic opportunity, the post office was closed in 1968.

[6] Other primarily American Black settlements formed at this time were Junkins (now Wildwood), near Chip Lake; Keystone (now Breton), southwest of Edmonton; Campsie, near Barrhead; and Eldon, near Maidstone, Saskatchewan.

[6] Beginning in the 1950s, many descendants of the original settlers began moving to near cities such as Edmonton to escape the rigours of rural life and have more economic opportunity.