Pipestone, Manitoba

Pipestone
Pipestone Location of Pipestone in Manitoba
Coordinates: 49°33′28″N 100°56′44″W / 49.55778°N 100.94556°W / 49.55778; -100.94556Coordinates: 49°33′28″N 100°56′44″W / 49.55778°N 100.94556°W / 49.55778; -100.94556
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Region	Westman Region
Census Division	No. 6
Government
• Governing Body	Rural Municipality of Pipestone Council
• MP	Larry Maguire
• MLA	Doyle Piwniuk
Time zone	CST (UTC−6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC−5)
Postal Code	R0M 1T0
Area code(s)	204
NTS Map	062F10
GNBC Code	GAVTR

Views of Pipestone, 1909.

Pipestone, Manitoba is a community in South Western Manitoba. Located at the corner of highways 2 and 83, Pipestone is approximately half an hour from either Virden or Melita, approximately 70 km (43 mi) to the United States border and approximately 36 km (22 mi) to the Saskatchewan border. Mainly an agricultural hub with some oil drilling in the area.

Pipestone is part of the Rural Municipality of Pipestone. The office for the municipality is located in Reston, approximately 10 kilometers west on Highway 2.

It was the birthplace of John Hamilton Roberts, who commanded the landing forces in the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

There is an amateur video of a large destructive tornado that passed through farm fields near Pipestone on June 23, 2007 ,^[1] and another on July 23, 2008.^[2]

An oil spill the size of two football fields was discovered near Pipestone in January 2012. More than 100,000 litres of oil seeped into surrounding farmland as a result of a broken pipe.^[3]

Subdivisions of Manitoba

Subdivisions	Regions Census divisions Municipalities Communities Indian reserves Population centres Designated places

Cities	Brandon Dauphin Flin Flon Morden Portage la Prairie Selkirk Steinbach Thompson Winkler Winnipeg

Towns	Altona Arborg Beausejour Carberry Carman Churchill Gillam Grand Rapids Lac du Bonnet Leaf Rapids Lynn Lake Melita Minnedosa Morris Neepawa Niverville The Pas Powerview-Pine Falls Snow Lake Ste. Anne Swan River Teulon Virden Winnipeg Beach Former towns: Birtle Boissevain Deloraine Emerson Erickson Gilbert Plains Gladstone Grandview Gretna Hamiota Hartney MacGregor Manitou Minitonas Oak Lake Pilot Mound Plum Coulee Rapid City Rivers Roblin Rossburn Russell Souris Sainte Rose du Lac Treherne

Villages	Dunnottar St-Pierre-Jolys Former villages: Benito Binscarth Bowsman Cartwright Crystal City Elkhorn Ethelbert Glenboro McCreary Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Riverton Somerset St. Claude St. Lazare Waskada Wawanesa Winnipegosis

Portal:Manitoba

References

Geographical Names of Manitoba - Pipestone (page 214) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada

Virden

Reston

Souris

Pipestone

Melita

Grande Clairière, Hartney

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