The Rural Municipality of Foam Lake No. 276 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the

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of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 10 and Division No. 4. It is located in the east-central portion of the province.

History

The RM of Foam Lake No. 306 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 12, 1910. It was renumbered when it amalgamated with the RM of Beaver No. 276 on December 31, 1952. The RM had the second highest population density in 1955 for the province.

Geography

Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM. ;

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Foam Lake Foam Lake is a town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It had a population of 1,123 in 2006. It is located in a mixed agricultural area approximately 220 km south-east of Saskatoon on the Yellowhead Highway. Foam Lake, the lake for ...

;Resort villages * Chorney Beach * Leslie Beach The following unincorporated communities are within the RM. ;

Organized hamlet In most cases in Saskatchewan, a Hamlet (place), hamlet is an unincorporated community with at least five occupied dwellings situated on separate lots and at least 10 separate lots, the majority of which are an average size of less than one acre. S ...

s * Tuffnell ;Localities * Edmore *

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* Kristnes * Layco * West Bend, (dissolved as a village) * Winthorpe

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, the RM of Foam Lake No. 276 had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Foam Lake No. 276 recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Government

The RM of Foam Lake No. 276 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Wednesday of every month. The

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of the RM is Ken Kaban while its administrator is Shanna Loeppky. The RM's office is located in Foam Lake.

References

{{SKDivision10 F * Icelandic settlements in Saskatchewan Division No. 10, Saskatchewan