Official Name: | Central Butte |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Central Butte in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 50.792°N -106.508°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1907 |
Established Title2: | Village Incorporated |
Established Title3: | Town Incorporated |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Grant Berger[1] |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Kyle Van Den Bosch |
Area Total Km2: | 2.24 |
Population Total: | 372 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Density Km2: | 166.3 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 0T0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Website: | Central Butte, Saskatchewan |
Footnotes: | [3] [4] [5] |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Central Butte Town Council |
Timezone: | CST |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 19 Highway 42 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Central Butte is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately from Saskatoon, Regina and Swift Current and from Moose Jaw. Thunder Creek, a major tributary of the Moose Jaw River, begins west of the community. The town is served by the Central Butte Airport (TC LID: CJC4).
The first settlers arrived to farm in the Central Butte area in 1905, the same year Saskatchewan became a province. In 1906 a store and post office were established. A railway from Moose Jaw made it to the Central Butte area at the end of 1914, meaning the 48adj=midNaNadj=mid trips to Craik for supplies were no longer necessary. After the railway arrived, a permanent township was chosen and businesses moved in to the area.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Central Butte had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.1km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]