Rural Municipality Of Oakview
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The Rural Municipality of Oakview is a
rural municipality A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
(RM) in the
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of
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, incorporated on January 1, 2015 as a result of the amalgamation of the rural municipalities of Blanshard,
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, and the town of
Rapid City Rapid City is the county seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed. It is the second-mo ...
. It was formed as a requirement of ''The Municipal Amalgamations Act'', which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015. The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.


Demographics

In the
2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
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, Oakview had a population of 1,928 living in 781 of its 828 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,626. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


Communities

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* Brumlie * Cardale *
Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norma ...
* Oak River *
Rapid City Rapid City is the county seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed. It is the second-mo ...
* Riverdale


References

{{Authority control 2015 establishments in Manitoba Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2015 Populated places established in 2015 Rural municipalities in Manitoba