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Rural Municipality of Lawtonia No. 135

rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6505066
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The Rural Municipality of Lawtonia No. 135 (2016 population: 346) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and SARM Division No. 3.

History

The RM of Lawtonia No. 135 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 12, 1910.

Geography

Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM.

Villages

Hodgeville

The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.

Localities

Flowing Well

Tyson

Vogel

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Lawtonia No. 135 had a population of 356 living in 98 of its 120 total private dwellings, a change of 2.9% from its 2016 population of 346. With a land area of 843.24 km2 (325.58 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.4/km2 (1.1/sq mi) in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Lawtonia No.

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This entry incorporates text from Rural Municipality of Lawtonia No. 135” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.