Stony Rapids

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stony Rapids had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4.24 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Transportation

A winter ice road connects Fond-du-Lac and Uranium City. There is an all-season road to the community of Black Lake, 20 km southeast. Like most northern communities, Stony Rapids relies on its Stony Rapids Airport and Stony Rapids Water Aerodrome for vital transportation.

Health care

The Athabasca Health Facility completed in 2003 at the cost of $12.7 million provides health care services to the Athabasca region. The hospital, located on reserve land (Chicken 224) of the Black Lake Dene Nation adjacent to Stony Rapids, is part of the Athabasca Health Authority.{{cite web |access-date = 2014-09-09 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140827052655/http://www.athabascahealth.ca/home.html |archive-date = 2014-08-27

Climate

Stony Rapids has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with long, severe winters and short, mild to warm summers. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with snow depth peaking at around 0.6 m, reaching an extreme depth of 1.09 m on 22 January 1991 and usually melting in mid-May. Unlike towns further west, temperature above 0 C are very rare during winter, occurring on average only 1.5 times from December to February. Snowfall is steady from October to April, totalling on average 2.34 m and an extreme daily fall of 0.31 m on 16 March 1995.

Summers are mild to warm with frequent light rain, although 3.4 days per summer reach 30 C. The average frost-free period is eighty-one days from 9 June to 30 August, though temperatures below 0 C have occurred a handful of times in July.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Stony Rapids was 39.8 C on 30 June 2021.

|Jan record high C = 5.4 |Feb record high C = 8.0 |Mar record high C = 17.2 |Apr record high C = 22.2 |May record high C = 33.1 |Jun record high C = 39.8 |Jul record high C = 38.5 |Aug record high C = 35.7 |Sep record high C = 30.6 |Oct record high C = 23.5 |Nov record high C = 10.0 |Dec record high C = 3.9 |year record high C = 39.8 |Jan record low C = -50.6 |Feb record low C = -48.9 |Mar record low C = -46.1 |Apr record low C = -38.9 |May record low C = -18.3 |Jun record low C = -5.0 |Jul record low C = -1.1 |Aug record low C = -2.8 |Sep record low C = -11.1 |Oct record low C = -24.4 |Nov record low C = -45.6 |Dec record low C = -48.2 |year record low C = -50.6

References

References

1. (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
2. "Highway 905 in Saskatchewan".
3. Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure. (2016). "Saskatchewan Official Road Map". Government of Saskatchewan.