Prairie TownRM No. 35Benson

RM of Benson

Rural municipality No. 35 · population 450

Benson grain elevator and village from the air, 2026 · Quintin Soloviev, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

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Weather in RM of Benson

0° Cloudy Wind N 5 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 88%
  1. Tonight -6°
  2. Fri 5°0°
  3. Sat 10°5°
  4. Sun 12°8°
  5. Mon 8°0°
  6. Tue 12°-2°
  7. Wed 8°

Tonight: Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of rain showers or flurries early this evening. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 6. Wind chill minus 10 overnight.

Normal for today: high 6°, low -6°

  • 10 h 2 min of daylight, 3 min 24 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:34 a.m., sunset 5:36 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -6°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 22° in 2008, record low -18° in 2002

No weather alerts or drinking water advisories right now.

Forecast for the Estevan area, 29 km away, observed at Estevan Airport at 10:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 11:16 p.m..

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Address
Box 69
Benson SK S0C 0L0
Hours
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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RM of Benson’s story

The Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35 was incorporated as a rural municipality on December 13, 1909. It lies in the southeast part of Saskatchewan, and its unincorporated communities include Benson, Bryant, Cullen and Woodley. The RM office is in Benson.

One heritage property is recognized within the municipality: St. Luke's Lutheran Church, built in 1929 in the hamlet of Woodley.

Agriculture remains important here, with about 95 percent of the land under cultivation. The municipality is also home to some 300 oil wells.

Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.

RM of Benson in photos

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Benson grain elevator and village from the air, 2026
Benson grain elevator and village from the air, 2026Quintin Soloviev, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Spring rain over farmland, 2022
Spring rain over farmland, 2022Masterhatch, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Main street of Benson from the prairie, about 1910
Main street of Benson from the prairie, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC042419

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