Buchanan | |
Official Name: | Village of Buchanan |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Buchanan in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 51.7014°N -102.754°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | East-Central |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 9 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Buchanan |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Buchanan Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | TBD |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Candace Loshka |
Leader Title3: | MP |
Leader Title4: | MLA |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1906 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | May 6, 1907 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Urban Km2: | 1.29 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 218 |
Population Density Km2: | 168.8 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CST[2] |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [3] |
Elevation M: | 502 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0A 0J0 |
Area Code: | 306 / 639 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Buchanan (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Buchanan No. 304 and Census Division No. 9.
Buchanan incorporated as a village on June 11, 1907.[4] The village was named after Robert Buchanan, a local rancher who died in 1919.[5]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Buchanan had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.13km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Buchanan recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 1.29km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[7]