| Official Name: | Stony Rapids |
| Native Name: | Deschaghe ᐊᓯᓃᐏ ᐹᐏᐢᑎᑯᕽ asinîwi-pâwistikohk |
| Settlement Type: | Northern hamlet |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Saskatchewan |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Stony Rapids in Saskatchewan |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 59.2547°N -105.8386°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Established Title: | Post office established |
| Established Date: | 1937 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Daniel Powder |
| Leader Name1: | Jim Lemaigre… Tyrel Duff, Kirk McDonald, Terri-Lynn Beavereye, Mervin McDonald |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.96 |
| Population Total: | 243 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 61.3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0J 2R0 |
| Footnotes: | [2] [3] [4] |
| Leader Title2: | MP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River |
| Leader Name2: | Gary Vidal, Conservative |
| Timezone: | Central Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | −6 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −5 |
Stony Rapids (Chipewyan; Dene Suline: Deschaghe|translation=settlement on the other side of the Rapids; script=Cans|i=no|ᐊᓯᓃᐏ ᐹᐏᐢᑎᑯᕽ|asinîwi-pâwistikohk|translation=stones in these rapids (locative)) is a northern hamlet in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located south of the border to the Northwest Territories, the community is astride the Fond du Lac River. This river connects the community to Fond-du-Lac, Uranium City and Camsell Portage.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stony Rapids had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4.24km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
Saskatchewan Highway 905 runs from Highway 102 to Stony Rapids. The highway is approximately long and is entirely unpaved. A section between Points North Landing and Black Lake is a seasonal winter road.[6] A winter ice road connects Fond-du-Lac and Uranium City. There is an all-season road to the community of Black Lake, 20km (10miles) southeast.Like most northern communities, Stony Rapids relies on its Stony Rapids Airport and Stony Rapids Water Aerodrome for vital transportation.
The Athabasca Health Facility completed in 2003 at the cost of $12.7 million provides health care services to the Athabasca region. The hospital, located on reserve land (Chicken 224) of the Black Lake Dene Nation adjacent to Stony Rapids, is part of the Athabasca Health Authority.[7] [8]
Stony Rapids has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with long, severe winters and short, mild to warm summers. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with snow depth peaking at around 0.6m (02feet), reaching an extreme depth of 1.09m (03.58feet) on 22 January 1991 and usually melting in mid-May. Unlike towns further west, temperature above 0C are very rare during winter, occurring on average only 1.5 times from December to February. Snowfall is steady from October to April, totalling on average 2.34m (07.68feet) and an extreme daily fall of 0.31m (01.02feet) on 16 March 1995.
Summers are mild to warm with frequent light rain, although 3.4 days per summer reach 30C. The average frost-free period is eighty-one days from 9 June to 30 August, though temperatures below 0C have occurred a handful of times in July.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Stony Rapids was 39.8C on 30 June 2021.[9] The coldest temperature ever recorded was -50.6C on 26 January 1966 and 13 January 1972.[10] [11]