The Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18 (
2016 population: ) is a
rural municipality (RM) in the
Canadian province
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of
Saskatchewan within
Census Division No. 4 and
Division No. 3. Located in the southwest portion of the province, it is southwest of the City of
Swift Current. It is adjacent to the United States border, neighbouring
Blaine County and
Phillips County in
Montana.
History
The RM of Lone Tree No. 18 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 8, 1913.
It was named for Lonetree Lake, whose signature tree was chopped down in 1918. This name was once further rearranged to form Treelon, a post office which operated in the municipality until 1945.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM.
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Villages
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Bracken
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Climax
Climax may refer to:
Language arts
* Climax (narrative), the point of highest tension in a narrative work
* Climax (rhetoric), a figure of speech that lists items in order of importance
Biology
* Climax community, a biological community th ...
The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.
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* Canuck
* Treelon
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by Statistics Canada
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, the RM of Lone Tree No. 18 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.
Government
The RM of Lone Tree No. 18 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the third Wednesday of every month.[ The ]reeve
Reeve may refer to:
Titles
*Reeve (Canada), an elected chief executive of some counties, townships, and equivalents
*Reeve (England), an official elected annually by the serfs to supervise lands for a lord
*High-reeve, a title taken by some Englis ...
of the RM is Larry Jarman while its administrator is Shawna Bertram.[ The RM's office is located in Climax.][
]
Transportation
See also
* List of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan
References
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Lone Tree
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Division No. 4, Saskatchewan