| Official Name: | Orkney |
| Settlement Type: | Unorganized hamlet |
| Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Val Marie#Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 49.1333°N -107.9172°W |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Southwest Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type4: | Rural municipality |
| Leader Title: | Governing body |
| Leader Name: | Rural Municipality of Val Marie No. 17 |
| Leader Title1: | Reeve |
| Leader Title2: | Administrator |
| Leader Title3: | MLA |
| Leader Title4: | MP |
| Area Total Km2: | 0.23 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Total: | 4 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0N 1V0 |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | Highway 18 |
| Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Orkney is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Val Marie No. 17, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1924 when the Canadian Pacific Railway constructed its branch line to Val Marie, it was incorporated as a village in June 1928. Orkney is ten miles from the Canada–United States border.[1] Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of four in the Canada 2011 Census.[2]
Orkney was named after Orkney, Scotland, the boyhood home of local MP George Spence.[1]
Like the vast majority of Saskatchewan villages, Orkney was constructed as a planned railway townsite. Before construction, the area was served by the one-room school and rural post office at Diebolt. The village was founded when the CPR ran through the area in 1924. For the first year, buildings were erected randomly, as the townsite was only formally surveyed in 1925. In its heyday, the community had two grocery stores, a hotel, hardware store, pharmacy, barbershop, butcher, bank, lumber yard, fire hall, and post office. St. Mary's Anglican Church was constructed in 1927. To commemorate Saskatchewan's 2005 centennial, its bell was mounted on a cairn in the Orkney Cemetery.[1]
When the Orkney post office still operated, the village was allocated the postal code S0N 1V0. No businesses function in the hamlet today.[1]
An abandoned brick schoolhouse still stands in Orkney. Orkney residents are bused to Frontier or Val Marie. Both villages cover kindergarten through grade 12 through the Chinook School Division.[1]