Tucked into the southeastern corner of Saskatchewan, the village of Storthoaks sits along Highway 361, roughly 129 kilometres east of the city of Estevan and just 16 kilometres west of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. It falls within the Rural Municipality of Storthoaks No. 31 and Census Division No. 1, placing it firmly in the province’s far southeastern reaches. Its proximity to the provincial border makes it one of the easternmost communities along this stretch of highway.
Storthoaks became an incorporated village on June 5, 1940. Its population has shifted noticeably over recent census periods – 93 residents were counted in 2011, rising to 108 by 2016, then declining to 86 by the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada. That most recent count represents a drop of roughly 20.4% from 2016. In 2021, those 86 residents occupied 31 of the village’s 43 total private dwellings, spread across a land area of 0.45 square kilometres, which works out to a population density of approximately 191 people per square kilometre. At its 2016 peak, the village covered 0.49 square kilometres and recorded a density of around 220 people per square kilometre across 43 occupied dwellings.