Mankota

Mankota (2021 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Mankota No. 45 and Census Division No. 3. The village is located on Highway 18, about 150 km southeast of the City of Swift Current. It is also near the villages of Kincaid, Ferland, Hazenmore, and Glentworth.

History
The community acquired a post office in 1911 and was named by combining Manitoba and North Dakota, the original homes of many of its initial settlers. Mankota incorporated as a village on February 3, 1941.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mankota had a population of $198$ living in $108$ of its $133$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $205$. With a land area of 1.5 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Mankota recorded a population of living in  of its  total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 1.42 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

Economy and businesses
Mankota has a stockyard for the sale of cattle from many farms in the area. Other businesses include the Grasslands Inn, a motel/restaurant, a general store, an Innovation Credit Union, a small clinic/old folks home, a bowling alley, a town hall, a library, a fire station, a smaller community centre, an auto repair shop, a Petro-Canada gas station, and a Canada Post office.

In 2016, Weil Group Resources of Dallas constructed a $10 million helium processing facility near Mankota to supply refined, industrial-grade helium gas to world markets, reviving a mineral resource which was previously established in Saskatchewan.

Education
Mankota has one school that covers Kindergarten through Grade 12 in the Prairie South School Division. Enrollment for the 2008-2009 year was at 78, declining to 61 in 2011, and declining further every year on average.

There are 40 students enrolled for the 2022-23 school year, seven of which are in Grade 12.

Attractions

 * Grasslands National Park, one of Canada's newer national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border.
 * Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border southeast of Medicine Hat, is Canada's only interprovincial park.
 * Mankota Stockyards, has cow sales every Friday all year long.
 * The Mankota Rodeo is held in May every year.

Notable people

 * David Anthony Rodney, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Lougheed, November 22, 2004 – November 1, 2017
 * Neil O Webster, photographer