Marsden, Saskatchewan
Marsden is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Manitou Lake No. 442">Manitou Lake (Saskatchewan)">Manitou Lake No. 442 and Census Division No. 13. It gained notoriety shortly after the impact of the Buzzard Coulee meteorite near the village on 20 November 2008.
Marsden is located along Highway 40, just east of Wells Lake, and about 4 miles north-west of Manitou Lake.
The village was named after Marsden, West Yorkshire in England. That was the birthplace of the wife of Alex F. Wright, the first postmaster.
History
Marsden incorporated as a village on 24 April 1931.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Marsden 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 Village of Marsden 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.