| Official Name: | Village of Zelma |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Zelma in Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 51.8417°N -105.9112°W |
| Pushpin Label Position: | none |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | R. Glen Crockett |
| Established Title: | Post office Founded |
| Established Date: | 1909 (closed 1985) |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
| Established Date2: | August 10, 1910 |
| Area Total Km2: | 0.72 |
| Population As Of: | 2006 |
| Population Total: | 30 |
| Population Density Km2: | 41.9 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Postal Code: | S0K 0C0 |
Zelma (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312 and Census Division No. 11. The village is located along Saskatchewan Highway 763.
Zelma incorporated as a village on August 10, 1910.[1]
The Zelma Church was built in 1909 with a load of lumber for $500 and volunteer labour. Initially a Presbyterian Church, it was reorganised in 1917 as the Zelma United Church.[2]
Until 1912, students were required to attend school in the neighbouring communities of Stonemount or Golden Wheat due to reluctance of many of the farmers (who were bachelors) in the area to vote in favour of spending tax money on a school. In 1912 the school district was established, originally using the church for classes until a one-room school house was constructed in 1925. The school closed in 1969, with students bussed to Young.[3]
During the early years following the establishment of Zelma, the village had a thriving business community with a general store, lumber yards, a hotel, bakery, flour mill, and grain elevators; most of these business had disappeared by the end of the 1940s.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Zelma had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.71km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Zelma recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.72km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[6]