Area:  5,700 Acres (2,300 Hectares)

Population: 16,747
200,000+ (trading area)

Altitude: 1,656 Feet (505 Metres)

Income: $33, 114 (Average Family

Construction: $16,741,357 (7 year average)

Sales:  $140,590,000 (Retail)
            $  81,600,000 (Manufacturing)
            $3.6 billion (trading area)

  
Climate:

• 2,300 Hours Per Year (6 Hours per day) Sunshine

• 15-45 Inches Snow Per Year

• 15 Inches Rain (38 cm)

  
Industries:

• Agriculture

• Potash Mining

• Manufacturing

• Food Processing.

• Retail

• Service

• Tourism

  
Events:

• Sunflower Festival

• Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival

• Yorkton Exhibition

• Harvest Showdown

• Spring Expo

• Thresherman's Show and Senior Festival.

  
Municipal Services:

  
Education:

  
Churches:
     - All major religious denominations

Clubs:
     - A variety of Service clubs as well as
      sport, culture, and Arts organizations.

  
Major Manufacturing:

• Harvest Meats Ltd. - processed meat products

• Leon Ram Enterprises Inc. - agricultural equipment and supplies

• Ram Rod Industries - Agricultural and Industrial Equipment

• Dairy Producers Co-operative - dairy products

• IMC Canada, Esterhazy - Potash Mining

• Morris Industries - agricultural equipment and supplies

• Popowich Milling - food processing

• Babcock & Wilcox Canada, Melville - metal fabricating

  
Conventions

  
Recreation:

• Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre

• Yorkton Recreation Area

• Numerous Baseball and Softball Diamonds (several lighted)

• Playgrounds

• 2 Golf Courses

• Parkland Agriplex (Indoor skating, swimming pool and curling rink)

• Kinsmen Arena

• Ravine Ecological Preserve

• Jaycee Beach

• Snowmobile Trails

• Tennis Courts

  
Communications:

• The News-Paper/The Paper
  (Print Media)

• CJGX Radio

• CKOS/CICC TV

• Yorkton This Week & Enterprise (Print Media)

• Image Wireless Communications INC.

• The Community Post