Plenty became a village on March 25, 1911. Its name was chosen by the Canadian Pacific Railway. As the line was being laid, the future townsite and the country around it were the first fields along the route to produce good crops, so the area seemed to be "the Land of Plenty" and the town took its name from that.
The land here was used long before the railway came. About 9.7 kilometres north of town is the Moore's Ravine Municipal Heritage Site, also called Richard's Pasture, a stretch of roughly 200 acres on private land. It holds several Aboriginal heritage sites, including two turtle effigies and the Plenty Medicine Wheel, and archaeological digs there have turned up hundreds of scattered buffalo bones.
Opuntia Lake lies about 6.4 kilometres east of Plenty and is an important stopping place for birds and wildlife, especially geese, ducks, sandhill cranes and tundra swans in the fall. In the 1950s the area around the lake was made a game preserve to regulate hunting. Trees were planted, ball diamonds and a boat house were built, and the Plenty Sports Day was held there for several years. Attempts to stock the lake with fish ended because of its salinity and changing water levels.
Today agriculture drives the local economy, with some help from oil and gas activity to the west and south. Plenty's school, North West Central School, serves the surrounding communities.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Plenty, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.