Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71
The Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 3 and Division No. 2. It is located in the south-central portion of the province.
History
The RM of Excel No. 71 incorporated as a rural municipality on January 1, 1913.Geography
Communities and localities
The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.;Organized hamlets
;Localities
- Crane Valley
- Maxwellton
- Readlyn, dissolved as a village, December 31, 1955
- Verwood, dissolved as a village, December 31, 1954
- Viceroy, dissolved as a village, May 10, 2002
Dryboro/ Burn Lake IBA
Dryboro/ Burn Lake is an Important Bird Area of Canada within the RM of Excel. The IBA is located west of Ormiston and covers an area of in the Missouri Coteau region. Dryboro and Burn Lakes are part of a larger complex of connected intermittent salt lakes in a semi-arid landscape surrounded by hilly terrain that is part of a federal Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. The lakes are an important habitat for the endangered piping plover and are protected from development up to the high water mark. Other birds found in the area include the Baird's sparrow, Sprague's pipit, chestnut-collared longspur, clay-coloured sparrow, and the horned lark.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Excel No. 71 had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Excel No. 71 recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.