Uranium City is a real town/community, it is one of the northernmost settlements in Saskatchewan, Canada, located at the mouth of Fredette River on Martin Lake about 760 kilometers (470 miles) northwest of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of the Northwest Territories-Saskatchewan border. Uranium City was founded as a uranium boomtown in 1952, following the discovery of a large uranium deposit in 1949, by 1954 there were 52 mines and 12 open-pit mines in operation. At first Uranium City was mostly tents, but in 1956 the provincial government passed the Municipal Corporation of Uranium City and District Act, making it an incorporated city, the population went from a few dozen in 1956, to 2,507 in 1981. Up until the mid-1960's, during the height of the Cold War, the uranium mined here was sold to the United States for nuclear weapons production, around 1965 production shifted towards fueling commercial nuclear power plants in Canada, the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The uranium mines were played out and closed in 1982, this resulted in the economic collapse of Uranium City, as most of the community's residents were miners they wound up moving to other mining towns. In 1983 the town was unincorporated, with Uranium City becoming an "unincorporated northern settlement", the schools in the town were closed in the early 1990's, and the local hospital closed in 2003. As of 2021, the population of Uranium City was 91, with most of the residents being Métis and First Nations people.
