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Tompkins

Village · population 153 · RM of Gull Lake No. 139

CPR line at dusk, 2015 · Kabelleger / David Gubler, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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-1° Partly cloudy Feels like -2° with the wind chill · Wind E 4 km/h, gusts 37 · Humidity 88%
  1. Tonight -6°
  2. Fri 6°-1°
  3. Sat 5°-1°
  4. Sun 6°-1°
  5. Mon 5°-2°
  6. Tue 10°-4°
  7. Wed 7°

Tonight: Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries early this evening. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 6. Wind chill minus 12 overnight.

Normal for today: high 6°, low -5°

  • 9 h 59 min of daylight, 3 min 29 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:59 a.m., sunset 5:58 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -6°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 22° in 1968, record low -25° in 1991

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Forecast for the Shaunavon area, 53 km away, observed at Eastend at 6:00 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 7:12 p.m..

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Council
Office
5 2nd Street
Tompkins SK S0N 2S0
Mail
Box 247
Tompkins SK S0N 2S0
Hours
Tuesday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tompkins’s history

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Tompkins sits on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Rural Municipality of Gull Lake No. 139, between Maple Creek and Swift Current. The village takes its name from Thomas Tompkins, a contractor who worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. It incorporated as a village on June 2, 1910.

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CPR line at dusk, 2015
CPR line at dusk, 2015Kabelleger / David Gubler, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
New residences, about 1915
New residences, about 1915Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC032438
Tompkins Supply Co. building, about 1909
Tompkins Supply Co. building, about 1909Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC012805

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