Riverdale | |
Official Name: | Riverdale Municipality |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Coordinates: | 49.975°N -100.2789°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Established Title: | Incorporated |
Established Date: | January 1, 2015 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Todd Gill |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Land Km2: | 576.02 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1,803 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 3.7 |
Timezone1: | CST |
Utc Offset1: | -6 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
Riverdale Municipality is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
See also: Rural Municipality of Daly and Rivers, Manitoba. The RM was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of Daly and the Town of Rivers.[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]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Riverdale had a population of 1,803 living in 714 of its 788 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,133. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]