Official Name: | Burr |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Burr in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 52.042°N -105.135°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Timezone: | CST |
Elevation M: | 557.78 |
Elevation Ft: | 1830 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0K 0T0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 20 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Burr is an unincorporated community south of Humboldt, Saskatchewan.
It has an office for the Rural Municipality of Wolverine No. 340, a post office. A short distance north is a hall, and Saint Scholastica Roman Catholic Church (founded 1905).[1] [2] [3]
According to the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, Victoria Cross recipient Raphael Louis Zengel lived in Burr from 1906 to 1914.[4]
The "Burr Project" is a plan to extract potash from a large deposit in the area.[5]