Eastend, Saskatchewan

Eastend
Town
Storefronts on main street Eastend
Nickname(s): Dinocountry
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Coordinates: 49°30′50″N 108°49′10″W / 49.5139°N 108.8195°W / 49.5139; -108.8195Coordinates: 49°30′50″N 108°49′10″W / 49.5139°N 108.8195°W / 49.5139; -108.8195
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Saskatchewan
Census division	4
Rural Municipality	White Valley
Post Office Founded	1914-01-01
Government
• Mayor	Jesse Gordon
• Administrator	Edna Laturnus
• MLA Cypress Hills	Doug Steele
• MP Cypress Hills—Grasslands	David L. Anderson
Area
• Total	2.71 km2 (1.05 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	503
• Density	185.8/km2 (481/sq mi)
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0N 0T0
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Highway 13 Highway 18
Waterways	Frenchman River
Climate	Dfb
Website	Eastend, Saskatchewan

Eastend is a town in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. It is situated approximately 55 kilometres (34 mi) north from the Montana border and 85 kilometres (53 mi) from the Alberta border.

The town is best known for the nearby discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed "Scotty" in 1994. The town has used the discovery of this fossil as the main centrepiece in the construction of a museum called the T. rex Discovery Centre, which opened on May 30, 2000. The centre is operated by the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, and contains the RSM Fossil Research Station. A former resident of Eastend is the writer Wallace Stegner, who lived in the town between 1917 and 1921 and featured it as the village Whitemud in his book Wolf Willow.

Eastend is located south-east of the Cypress Hills, east from Ravenscrag Butte and south from Anxiety Butte. It lies at an elevation of 915 meters (3,002 ft), in the valley of the Frenchman River. The Eastend Reservoir was built upstream from the community.

The Eastend Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was named for the town and was first defined in outcrops close to the settlement.

Saskatchewan Highway 13 and highway 614 intersect in Eastend. The Canadian Pacific Railway tracks also pass through the town. The Saskatchewan Transportation Company provides intercity passenger and parcel express service to Eastend.