Minton

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

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Overview

Minton is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Surprise Valley No. 9 and Census Division No. 2. It is on Highway 6 just north of its intersection with Highway 18, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of the Raymond-Regway Border Crossing on the Montana-Saskatchewan border. The village was named after Minton, Shropshire in England. The name was given by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Saskatchewan

• Sturgeon Lake
  299.1 mi away
• Big River
  323.2 mi away · pop. 1,140
• Rudzisko
  4775.8 mi away · pop. 55
• Petrykozy
  4775.9 mi away
• Giełzów
  4776.5 mi away · pop. 400
• Kamienna Wola
  4776.6 mi away · pop. 330
• Bernów
  4777.2 mi away · pop. 160
• Skrzyszów
  4777.4 mi away · pop. 200
• Maleniec
  4778.2 mi away · pop. 150
• Wyszyna Machorowska
  4779.7 mi away · pop. 110
• Gracuch
  4780.2 mi away · pop. 190
• Komaszyce
  4781.5 mi away · pop. 180

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recent natural events nearby

• Wildfire Ayers Pond, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-03 · 174 mi
• Incident Complex Rattlesnake Complex, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-04 · 179 mi
• Wildfire Snow, Custer, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-02 · 187 mi

Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).

Recently spotted species

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio glaucus

Seen 2026-08-15

Monarch

Danaus plexippus

Seen 2026-08-13

white milkwort

Senega alba

Seen 2026-08-10

Swainson's Hawk

Buteo swainsoni

Seen 2026-06-23

Lark Bunting

Calamospiza melanocorys

Seen 2026-06-23

Hunt's Bumble Bee

Bombus huntii

Seen 2026-05-22

Cutleaf Nightshade

Solanum triflorum

Seen 2025-08-03

pleated gentian

Gentiana affinis

Seen 2025-08-03

wheat sedge

Carex atherodes

Seen 2025-07-19

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers