Official Name: | Woodrow |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Woodrow |
Coordinates: | 49.7°N -106.7172°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Census division |
Subdivision Type3: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1909-06-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | N/A |
Established Title3: | Dissolved |
Established Date3: | March 21, 2002 |
Area Total Km2: | 0.42 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Total: | 5 |
Population Density Km2: | 11.9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 4M0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 13 Highway 610 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Blank1 Info: | Thomson Lake |
Woodrow is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan approximately 6 miles west of Lafleche. This present day agricultural area was once the hub of the local area with lumber yards, grain elevators, 3 churches and 3 or more general stores. The village was formally dissolved on March 21, 2002, and is now administered by the surrounding Rural Municipality of Wood River No. 74.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Woodrow had a population of 20 living in 6 of its 6 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 58. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Saskatchewan Transportation Company provided intercity bus service until the end of May, 2017, when service was discontinued.[3]
The Woodrow Gospel Chapel began service in 1909 by George Reimche, and was based on immigrants from North Dakota when the community was originally known as Hoffnungsfeld.[4]