Pierson is an unincorporated community recognized as a

local urban district A local urban district is a type of unincorporated community within the Canadian province of Manitoba. According to ''The Municipal Act'', a local urban district is a locality wholly within a rural municipality that "has at least 250 residents a ...

located in the

Municipality of Two Borders The Municipality of Two Borders is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located in the extreme south-west corner of the province in the Westman Region. The rural municipality's name is a reference to its loc ...

in southwestern

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. The

Antler–Lyleton Border Crossing The Antler–Lyleton Border Crossing connects the cities of Antler, North Dakota, Pierson, Manitoba, and Lyleton, Manitoba on the Canada–United States border. It is reached by North Dakota Highway 256 in Bottineau County on the American si ...

is located south of Pierson. Pierson is home to the Carnival of Crafts which averages an attendance of 1,700 people. This event takes place at the Edward Sports Centre on the first Saturday in October.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Pierson had a population of 174 living in 85 of its 106 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 190. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Climate

Pierson has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(

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) with great differences between summer and winter. The regime is typical of southern Manitoba, the northern edges of

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and the surrounding border region.

External links

Official Web site for Pierson, Manitoba

References

{{MBDivision5 Designated places in Manitoba Local urban districts in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Westman Region