The Rural Municipality of Piney is a rural municipality in southeastern Manitoba, Canada, along the border with Minnesota in the United States.

Geography

According to

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, the municipality has a land area of 2,433.77 km². It is bordered by the rural municipalities of Stuartburn, La Broquerie, and Reynolds, as well as the Buffalo Point 36 Indian reserve and an unorganized part of the province ( Division No. 1, Unorganized, Manitoba). The municipality borders

Roseau County Roseau County () (pronounced row - so) is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota, along the Canada–US border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,331. Its county seat is Roseau. Roseau County borders the C ...

in the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are three international border crossings in Piney, the most of any Manitoba municipality: Pinecreek–Piney, Roseau–South Junction, and

Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing The Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing connects the city of Warroad, Minnesota and community of Sprague, Manitoba on the Canada–United States border. Minnesota State Highway 313 on the American side joins Manitoba Highway 12 on the Canadian side. ...

s. A minority but large part of Sandilands Provincial Forest is located here, as is a small part of

Northwest Angle Provincial Forest The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...

. Also,

Cat Hills Provincial Forest The cat (''Felis catus'') is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of t ...

and

Wampum Provincial Forest Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western Nort ...

are both entirely located here, but these two forests are relatively tiny in size.

Communities

* Badger *

Carrick Carrick is an Anglicised version of ''creag/carraig'', Gaelic for "rock", and may refer to: People *Carrick (surname) * Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick (died 1250), Scottish Mormaer and first Earl of Carrick * Marjorie of Carrick (1256–1292), ...

* Menisino * Middlebro * Piney * St. Labre * Sandilands * South Junction * Sprague * Vassar * Wampum * Woodridge

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

, Piney had a population of 1,843 living in 804 of its 1,172 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,726. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In 2001, there were 690 housing units at an average density of 0.28/km². 2.4% of the people in the municipality are members of a visible minority. Of the 695 households, 24.5% had a couple (married or common law) with children, 38.1% had a couple without children, 26.6% had one person, and 10.1% had another household type. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.48. In the municipality the population was spread out, with 18.0% under the age of 15, 11.0% from 15 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 29.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% 65 or older. The median age was 44.2 years. For every 100 females there were 113.9 males. For every 100 females age 15 and over, there were 103.6 males. The median household income was $32,237 and the median family income was $39,525. Males had a median income of $23,726 versus $19,268 for females. The per capita income for the municipality was $10,043.

Climate

Gallery

Image:Piney_CN_station_1979.jpg, Piney, MB Canadian National Station, 1979 Image:Piney_Municipal_Office_Aug_79.jpg, Piney, MB old municipal office, 1979

References

External links

Official websiteMap of Piney R.M. at Statcan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Piney, Rural_Municipality_of_ Rural municipalities in Manitoba