Official Name: | Macoun |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Macoun in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.293°N -103.279°W |
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 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Suzanne Kuchinka[1] |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Carmen Dodd-Vicary |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Macoun Village Council |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1903-09-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Total Km2: | 1.68 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 246 |
Population Density Km2: | 146.1 |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0C 1P0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 39 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Footnotes: | [3] [4] |
Macoun (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36 and Census Division No. 2. The village is located northwest of the city of Estevan on Highway 39.
Macoun incorporated as a village on October 16, 1903.[5] On April 20, 1914, an acetylene gas plant explosion in the cellar of the Macoun Hotel and the resulting fire caused 13 deaths.[6] In the early 1900s acetylene was widely used for illumination.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macoun had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.7km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Macoun recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 1.68km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[8]
Notable people from Macoun include: