| Archerwill | |
| Official Name: | Village of Archerwill |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Motto: | "Where You're A Stranger Only Once" |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Archerwill in Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name2: | 14 |
| Subdivision Type3: | Rural municipality (RM) |
| Subdivision Name3: | Barrier Valley No. 397 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Curtis Lozinski (2018) |
| Leader Title1: | Governing body |
| Leader Name1: | Archerwill Village Council |
| Leader Name2: | Cathay Wagantall (2019) |
| Leader Title3: | MLA, Kelvington-Wadena |
| Leader Name3: | Chris Beaudry (2024) |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1924 |
| Established Title2: | Post office founded |
| Established Date2: | March 16, 1925 |
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (village) |
| Established Date3: | January 1, 1947 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.32 |
| Area Land Km2: | 0.82 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 153 |
| Population Density Km2: | 186.6 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 483.3 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Coordinates: | 52.4397°N -103.8614°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0E 0B0 |
| Area Codes: | 306 / 639 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank1 Name: | Railways |
| Blank1 Info: | Canadian Pacific |
| Blank2 Name: | Waterways |
| Blank2 Info: | Barrier Lake, Barrier River, George Williams Lake, Marean Lake, Carps Lake, Nut Lake |
Archerwill (2021 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Barrier Valley No. 397 and Census Division No. 14. The village is approximately 55abbr=onNaNabbr=on north of Wadena, 52abbr=onNaNabbr=on south of Tisdale and 70abbr=onNaNabbr=on southeast of the city of Melfort. Since 1981[1] Archerwill has been the administrative centre of the RM of Barrier Valley.
The community is named, in a syllabic abbreviation, after the secretary-treasurer and two councilors of the executive governing council of the RM of Barrier Valley in 1924. They were: Archie Campbell and Ervie Hanson, councilors; and William Pierce, secretary-treasurer.[2] Archerwill incorporated as a village on January 1, 1947.[3]
Archerwill is located on the Wadena-to-Tisdale branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. However, the nearly 55-year-old railway station[4] was torn down in the early 1980s; and the nearly 60-year-old Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and UGG elevators[5] were torn down in the 1990s.
The Archerwill Café (probably built in the late 1920s),[6] most recently operating as Diner Thirty Five, burned down in a fire on June 23, 2016. The actions of the Archerwill Volunteer Fire Department, along with the Rose Valley Volunteer Fire Department — who arrived from away — saved the adjacent Archerwill Hotel and the post office.[7]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Archerwill had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.82km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[8]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Archerwill recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.83km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[9]
Archerwill has a post office,[6] an indoor ice skating rink with attached curling sheets,[10] a community hall[10] with an attached small public library, and a "Senior Citizens' Centre" social hall.
Archerwill has an elementary school.[11]