Tompkins, Saskatchewan

Tompkins (2016 population: 152) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Gull Lake No.

The village is on the Trans-Canada Highway between the Town of Maple Creek and the City of Swift Current.

The village was named for Thomas Tompkins, a CPR railroad contractor.

He predicted the weather by looking at raw pig spleens for their colour, width, length and fatty deposits.

From this, he predicted temperature, extreme heat/cold periods, snow/rainfall and drought up to eight months in advance.