Prairie View | |
Official Name: | Prairie View Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Prairie View Municipality in Manitoba |
Coordinates: | 50.46°N -100.988°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Established Title: | Incorporated (amalgamated) |
Established Date: | January 1, 2015 |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Total Km2: | 1,694.69 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 2,161 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CST |
Utc Offset1: | -6 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
Prairie View Municipality is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba
See also: Rural Municipality of Birtle, Rural Municipality of Miniota and Birtle, Manitoba. It was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RMs of Birtle and Miniota and the Town of Birtle.[2] It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015.[3] The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.[4] The reeve of the RM is Roger Wilson.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prairie View had a population of 2,161 living in 832 of its 970 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,088. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]