Rural Municipality of Porcupine No. 395

The Rural Municipality of Porcupine No. 395 (2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 14 and SARM Division No. 4. It is located in the northeast-central portion of the province.

History
The RM of Porcupine No. 395 incorporated as a rural municipality on February 28, 1944.

Communities and localities
The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM.


 * Towns
 * Porcupine Plain


 * Villages
 * Weekes

The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.


 * Organized hamlets
 * Prairie River


 * Localities
 * Carragana, dissolved as a village, March 25, 1998
 * Dillabough
 * Somme

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Porcupine No. 395 had a population of $736$ living in $328$ of its $463$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $803$. With a land area of 2316.38 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Porcupine No. 395 recorded a population of living in  of its  total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 2339.96 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

Government
The RM of Porcupine No. 395 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the first Thursday of every month. The reeve of the RM is Steve Kwiatkowski while its administrator is Nicole Smith. The RM's office is located in Porcupine Plain.

Transportation

 * Highway 23 - serves Carragana and Prairie River
 * Highway 677 - serves Carragana
 * Highway 38