Stony Rapids
Community in Saskatchewan, Canada
title: "Stony Rapids" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["division-no.-18,-saskatchewan", "northern-hamlets-in-saskatchewan", "road-inaccessible-communities-of-saskatchewan", "dene-communities"] description: "Community in Saskatchewan, Canada" topic_path: "general/division-no-18-saskatchewan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Rapids" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Community in Saskatchewan, Canada ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Stony Rapids |
| native_name | Deschaghe |
| ᐊᓯᓃᐏ ᐹᐏᐢᑎᑯᕽ | |
| asinîwi-pâwistikohk | |
| settlement_type | Northern hamlet |
| image_skyline | [[Image:Stony Rapids.jpg |
| Stony Rapids Sign | |
| [[Image:NASA Saskatchewan Canada.A2002236.1810.721.250m (1)-001.jpg | 250px]] |
| NASA map of Stony Rapids | |
| pushpin_map | Canada Saskatchewan |
| pushpin_label_position | |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Stony Rapids in Saskatchewan |
| pushpin_relief | yes |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan |
| established_title | Post office established |
| established_date | 1937 |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Daniel Powder |
| leader_title1 | MLA Athabasca Town Counsellor |
| leader_name1 | Leroy Laliberte Tyrel Duff, Kirk McDonald, Terri-Lynn Beavereye, Mervin McDonald |
| unit_pref | |
| area_total_km2 | 3.96 |
| population_total | 243 |
| population_as_of | 2011 |
| population_footnotes | {{cite web |
| title | 2011 Community Profiles |
| work | Statistics Canada |
| publisher | Government of Canada |
| url | http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E |
| accessdate | 2013-04-05}} |
| population_density_km2 | 61.0 |
| postal_code_type | Postal code |
| postal_code | S0J 2R8 |
| footnotes | {{Cite web |
| last | National Archives |
| first | Archivia Net |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters |
| url | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |
| accessdate | 2013-04-05}}{{Cite web |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan |
| first | MRD Home |
| title | Municipal Directory System |
| url | http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |
| accessdate | 2013-04-05}}{{Cite web |
| last | Commissioner of Canada Elections |
| first | Chief Electoral Officer of Canada |
| title | Elections Canada On-line |
| year | 2005 |
| url | http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |
| accessdate | 2013-04-05}} |
| leader_title2 | MP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River |
| leader_name2 | Buckley Belanger, Liberal |
| timezone | Central Standard Time |
| utc_offset | −6 |
| utc_offset_DST | −5 |
| :: |
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Stony Rapids (; ) is a northern hamlet in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 82 km south of the border with the Northwest Territories, along the Fond du Lac River. This river connects the community to Fond-du-Lac, Uranium City and Camsell Portage.
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
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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 |title = Athabasca Health Authority |url = http://www.athabascahealth.ca/home.html |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 |df = | title = New Health Centre opens in Athabasca Basin | work = NEWS RELEASE - JULY 16, 2003 | publisher = Government of Saskatchewan | url = http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=e45da754-277c-431c-bdbe-ac4365ba0d2c | accessdate =2014-09-09}}
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. | url = https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=2010-02-02%7C2021-07-08&dlyRange=2010-02-11%7C2021-07-08&mlyRange=%7C&StationID=48548&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2021&selRowPerPage=25&Line=1&searchMethod=contains&Month=6&Day=1&txtStationName=stony+rapids&timeframe=2&Year=2021 | title = Daily Data Report for June 2021 | work = Canadian Climate Data | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = 9 July 2021}} The coldest temperature ever recorded was -50.6 C on 26 January 1966 and 13 January 1972. | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1960-07-01%7C1982-10-31&mlyRange=1960-01-01%7C1982-12-01&StationID=3399&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2016&selRowPerPage=25&Line=1&searchMethod=contains&txtStationName=stony+rapids&timeframe=2&Day=8&Year=1966&Month=1# | title = Daily Data Report for January 1966 | work = Canadian Climate Data | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = 9 October 2016}} | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1960-07-01%7C1982-10-31&mlyRange=1960-01-01%7C1982-12-01&StationID=3399&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2016&selRowPerPage=25&Line=1&searchMethod=contains&txtStationName=stony+rapids&timeframe=2&Day=8&Year=1972&Month=1# | title = Daily Data Report for January 1972 | work = Canadian Climate Data | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = 9 October 2016}}
|location = Stony Rapids Airport, 1981−2010 normals, extremes 1960−present |metric first = Y |single line = Y |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 high C = -19.5 |Feb high C = -15.1 |Mar high C = -6.6 |Apr high C = 3.8 |May high C = 12.1 |Jun high C = 19.9 |Jul high C = 22.7 |Aug high C = 20.3 |Sep high C = 12.7 |Oct high C = 3.3 |Nov high C = -8.2 |Dec high C = -16.4 |year high C = 2.4 |Jan mean C = -24.8 |Feb mean C = -21.2 |Mar mean C = -14.1 |Apr mean C = -3.0 |May mean C = 5.6 |Jun mean C = 12.9 |Jul mean C = 15.9 |Aug mean C = 14.0 |Sep mean C = 7.5 |Oct mean C = -0.5 |Nov mean C = -12.4 |Dec mean C = -21.4 |year mean C = -3.5 |Jan low C = -30.0 |Feb low C = -27.4 |Mar low C = -21.6 |Apr low C = -9.9 |May low C = -1.0 |Jun low C = 5.8 |Jul low C = 9.1 |Aug low C = 7.7 |Sep low C = 2.4 |Oct low C = -4.3 |Nov low C = -16.7 |Dec low C = -26.2 |year low C = -9.3 |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 |Jan precipitation mm = 19.3 |Feb precipitation mm = 15.3 |Mar precipitation mm = 20.6 |Apr precipitation mm = 18.9 |May precipitation mm = 32.0 |Jun precipitation mm = 45.6 |Jul precipitation mm = 62.4 |Aug precipitation mm = 70.3 |Sep precipitation mm = 59.3 |Oct precipitation mm = 34.6 |Nov precipitation mm = 30.1 |Dec precipitation mm = 17.8 |rain colour = green |Jan rain mm = 0.1 |Feb rain mm = 0.0 |Mar rain mm = 0.4 |Apr rain mm = 5.2 |May rain mm = 22.5 |Jun rain mm = 45.5 |Jul rain mm = 62.4 |Aug rain mm = 70.3 |Sep rain mm = 57.2 |Oct rain mm = 16.7 |Nov rain mm = 1.7 |Dec rain mm = 0.3 |Jan snow cm = 35.3 |Feb snow cm = 27.5 |Mar snow cm = 30.9 |Apr snow cm = 20.2 |May snow cm = 12.2 |Jun snow cm = 0.1 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 2.8 |Oct snow cm = 25.0 |Nov snow cm = 48.2 |Dec snow cm = 32.2 |unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm |Jan precipitation days = 12.7 |Feb precipitation days = 10.6 |Mar precipitation days = 10.1 |Apr precipitation days = 7.5 |May precipitation days = 10.2 |Jun precipitation days = 11.1 |Jul precipitation days = 13.7 |Aug precipitation days = 14.6 |Sep precipitation days = 14.4 |Oct precipitation days = 14.8 |Nov precipitation days = 14.6 |Dec precipitation days = 12.0 |unit rain days = 0.2 mm |Jan rain days = 0.17 |Feb rain days = 0.04 |Mar rain days = 0.64 |Apr rain days = 2.6 |May rain days = 8.3 |Jun rain days = 11.1 |Jul rain days = 13.7 |Aug rain days = 14.6 |Sep rain days = 13.9 |Oct rain days = 7.5 |Nov rain days = 1.0 |Dec rain days = 0.63 |year rain days = 74.2 |unit snow days = 0.2 cm |Jan snow days = 15.8 |Feb snow days = 13.7 |Mar snow days = 12.0 |Apr snow days = 6.4 |May snow days = 3.6 |Jun snow days = 0.1 |Jul snow days = 0.0 |Aug snow days = 0.04 |Sep snow days = 1.6 |Oct snow days = 10.4 |Nov snow days = 17.8 |Dec snow days = 16.3 |year snow days = 97.7 |source 1 = Environment Canada | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?stnID=3394&lang=e&province=SK&provSubmit=go&page=101&dCode= | title = Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan | work = Canadian Climate Normals 1981−2010 | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = March 25, 2016}} | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_stations_e.html?searchType=stnName&timeframe=1&txtStationName=stony+rapids&searchMethod=contains&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2016&Year=2016&Month=10&Day=8&selRowPerPage=25 | title = Stony Rapids | work = Canadian Climate Data | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = 9 October 2016}} | url = https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=2010-02-02%7C2021-07-08&dlyRange=2010-02-11%7C2021-07-08&mlyRange=%7C&StationID=48548&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2021&selRowPerPage=25&Line=1&searchMethod=contains&Month=7&Day=1&txtStationName=stony+rapids&timeframe=2&Year=2021 | title = Daily Data Report for July 2021 | work = Canadian Climate Data | publisher = Environment Canada | accessdate = 9 July 2021}}}}
References
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- Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure. (2016). "Saskatchewan Official Road Map". Government of Saskatchewan.
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