Official Name: | Stoughton |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Stoughton in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.675°N -103.037°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Bill Knous |
Leader Title1: | Town Manager |
Leader Name1: | Chris Miskolczi |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Stoughton Town Council |
Established Title: | Post office founded |
Established Date: | 1901 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Land Km2: | 3.41 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 649 |
Population Density Km2: | 173.4 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0G 4T0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Website: | http://stoughtonsk.ca |
Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Stoughton is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2011 it had a population of 649.[3] Stoughton was originally called New Hope. The settlement of New Hope was barely three years old when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) arrived in this part of the province in 1904. The CPR chose a location a little to the south for its closest depot, which it called Stoughton. The community of New Hope soon moved to join it.
Stoughton used to have its own small police service, which was aptly named the Stoughton Police Service. It no longer exists and now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) provide policing services to the town and surrounding areas.
Stoughton is approximately 88miles southeast of Regina at the terminus for Highway 33, which is the longest straight road in Canada, and the fifth longest in the world.[4] It is also the administrative headquarters of the Ocean Man First Nations band government.[5]
The town is served by Highway 13, Highway 33, and Highway 47.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stoughton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 3.45km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]