Prairie TownRM No. 281Wood Creek

RM of Wood Creek

Rural municipality No. 281 · population 205

Simpson Hotel and grain elevator at Railway Avenue, 2013 · Canadian2006, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Weather in RM of Wood Creek

-1° Mainly cloudy Feels like -6° with the wind chill · Wind W 15 km/h, gusts 27 · Humidity 85%
  1. Tonight -6°
  2. Fri 2°-4°
  3. Sat 5°-3°
  4. Sun 5°-2°
  5. Mon 5°-2°
  6. Tue 11°-3°
  7. Wed 8°

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Low minus 6. Wind chill near minus 10.

Normal for today: high 5°, low -5°

  • 9 h 52 min of daylight, 3 min 41 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:49 a.m., sunset 5:42 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -6°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 19° in 2008, record low -20° in 1991

No weather alerts or drinking water advisories right now.

Forecast for the Watrous area, 23 km away, observed at Watrous at 8:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 8:48 p.m..

RM office

Council
Office
303 George Street
Simpson SK S0G 4M0
Mail
Box 10
Simpson SK S0G 4M0
Hours
Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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RM of Wood Creek’s story

The Rural Municipality of Wood Creek No. 281 was incorporated as a rural municipality on December 13, 1909. It lies in the south-central part of Saskatchewan, next to Last Mountain Lake.

The village of Simpson sits within the RM's boundaries, and the RM office is located there. The locality of Amazon is also found within the municipality.

Today the RM is run by an elected council and an appointed administrator, who meet on the second Thursday of every month.

Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Wood Creek No. 281” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.

RM of Wood Creek in photos

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Main Street south side, Simpson, about 1912
Main Street south side, Simpson, about 1912Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC012819
Simpson Hotel and grain elevator at Railway Avenue, 2013
Simpson Hotel and grain elevator at Railway Avenue, 2013Canadian2006, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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