Ravenscrag | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southwest |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | White Valley |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Rural Municipality of White Valley |
Leader Title1: | Reeve |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Established Title: | Established (Post office) |
Established Date: | 1912-08-01 (closed 1986-06-23) |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Restructured (Hamlet) |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 49.5°N -109.2675°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0N 2C0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 706 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Ravenscrag is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of White Valley No. 49, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is located on Highway 614, along the Frenchman River, east of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and about southwest of the city of Swift Current.
Ravenscrag was once a community of over 100 people. Since the Great Depression, the town's population has dropped to one family.[1]
The settlement gave its name to the Ravenscrag Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, defined in 1918 by N.B. Davis at Ravenscrag Butte. The formation lies north-east of the community.