Editing Swift Current (section)

{{Short description|City in Saskatchewan, Canada}}
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{{Use Canadian English|date=July 2024}}
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{{Infobox settlement
|name                   = Swift Current
|official_name          = City of Swift Current
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|settlement_type        = [[List of cities in Saskatchewan|City]]
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|nickname               = [[List of city nicknames in Canada#Saskatchewan|"Speedy Creek"]]<ref name=starphoenix>{{cite news | url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/weekend_extra/story.html?id=1fae6b5d-1cf9-47f4-a74d-80dc4a0931eb&p=3 | title=Saskatchewan slang | newspaper=canada.com | publisher=Postmedia Network Inc. | date=November 7, 2007 | access-date=December 21, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109125035/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/weekend_extra/story.html?id=1fae6b5d-1cf9-47f4-a74d-80dc4a0931eb&p=3 | archive-date=November 9, 2012 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|motto                  = Where Life Makes Sense
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|pushpin_map            = Saskatchewan#Canada
|pushpin_label = Swift Current
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|subdivision_type       = Country
|subdivision_name       = Canada
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province]]
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|subdivision_name1      = [[Saskatchewan]]
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|established_title      = Established
|established_date       = 1883
|established_title2     = Incorporated (village)
|established_date2      = September 21, 1903
|established_title3     = Incorporated (town)
|established_date3      = March 15, 1907
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|leader_title           = Mayor
|leader_name            = Al Bridal
|leader_title1          = Governing body
|leader_name1           = Swift Current City Council
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|area_land_km2            = 29.30
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|elevation_m            = 817
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|population_total               = 16,750 <ref>{{cite web|title=2021 Census of Population Swift Current|publisher=Statistics Canada|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Swift%20Current&DGUIDlist=2021S05100912&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0|accessdate=February 11, 2023}}</ref> 
|population_as_of               = 2021
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|population_density_km2         = 571.6 <ref name="2016 Census Profile">[http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=4708004&Geo2=CD&Code2=4708&Data=Count&SearchText=swift%20current&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=1 Census Profile, 2016 Census]</ref>
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|population_blank1              = 18,745
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|postal_code_type       = [[Canadian postal code#Forward sortation areas|Forward sortation area]]
|postal_code            = [[List of S postal codes of Canada|S9H]]
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|website                ={{URL|http://www.swiftcurrent.ca/}}
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|leader_title2          = [[Current members of the Canadian House of Commons|MP]]
|leader_name2           = {{MP Cypress Hills}}
|leader_title3          = [[Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan|MLA]]
|leader_name3           = {{MLA Swift Current}}
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|established_title4     = Incorporated (city)
|established_date4      = January 15, 1914
|timezone              = [[North American Central Time Zone|CST]]
|utc_offset             = −6
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'''Swift Current''' is the sixth-largest city in the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian province]] of [[Saskatchewan]]. It is situated along the [[Saskatchewan Highway 1|Trans-Canada Highway]] {{convert|177|km|mi}} west of [[Moose Jaw]], and {{convert|223|km|mi}} east of [[Medicine Hat]], [[Alberta]]. As of 2024, Swift Current has an estimated population of 18,430, a growth of 1.32%<ref>{{Cite web |title=Swift Current Population 2024 |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/canadian-cities/swift-current-population |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=worldpopulationreview.com}}</ref> from the 2016 census population of 16,604.<ref>{{cite web|title=2021 Census of Population Swift Current|publisher=Statistics Canada|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Swift%20Current&DGUIDlist=2021S05100912&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0|accessdate=February 11, 2023}}</ref> The city is surrounded by the [[Rural Municipality of Swift Current No. 137]].