Kyle | |
Official Name: | Town of Kyle |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Lacadena#Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Lacadena |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Kyle Town Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Craik Warriors |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Karla Marshall |
Leader Title3: | MLA |
Leader Title4: | MP |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Land Km2: | 1.01 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Total: | 423 |
Population Density Km2: | 419.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank1: | 218 |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 50.8316°N -108.0373°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0L 1T0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 4 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Blank1 Info: | Canadian National Railway |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Kyle is a town in the Rural Municipality of Lacadena No. 228 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The town had a population of 423 in the 2006 Census. The village was named for its original settler, Jeremiah Kyle, in 1923. Kyle is north of Swift Current, and is situated along the remains of the historic Swift Current-Battleford Trail, south-west of Saskatoon, west of Regina and north of Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park on Highway 4.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kyle had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.16km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
The town is well-known locally both for being the site of a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth discovery during road construction in 1964 (the bones of which are now on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina), and being the nearest community to La Reata Ranch, a working cattle ranch that doubles as a resort allowing guests to experience a real cowboy lifestyle first-hand.
Near the town of Kyle is the Clearwater Lake Regional Park. On the road to it stands one of the last few drive-in theatres in Western Canada, which remains a very popular evening attraction for both young and old in the summer months. That drive-in is one of the few remaining in Saskatchewan. The others include the Jubilee Drive-in Theatre in Manitou Beach, the Prairie Dog Drive-in Theatre in Carlyle, the Moonlight Movies Drive-in in Pilot Butte, and the Twilite Drive-in Theater in Wolseley.[3]