Burr is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
south of
Humboldt, Saskatchewan
Humboldt is a city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 113 km east of Saskatoon at the junction of Saskatchewan Highway 5, Highway 5 and Saskatchewan Highway 20, Highway 20. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipali ...
.
It has an office for the
Rural Municipality of Wolverine No. 340, a post office. The town also has the Burr Recreational Hall right in town limits (across from the 2 remaining houses) and ball diamonds at the south end of the town. A short distance north is Saint Scholastica Roman Catholic Church (founded 1905).
According to the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, Victoria Cross recipient
Raphael Louis Zengel lived in Burr from 1906 to 1914.
The "Burr Project" is a plan to extract potash from a large deposit in the area.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix article on the Burr Project
See also
* List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, include Incorporation (municipal government), incorporated municipalities, Unincorporated area#Canada, unincorporated communities and First Nations in Canada, First Nations communities.
Types ...
References
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
Wolverine No. 340, Saskatchewan
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