County of Flinders
Flinders South Australia | |||||||||||||
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Flinders | |||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°30′07″S 135°41′56″E / 34.502°S 135.699°ECoordinates: 34°30′07″S 135°41′56″E / 34.502°S 135.699°E | ||||||||||||
Established | 1842[1] | ||||||||||||
Area | 4,760 square kilometres (1,838 sq mi)[2] | ||||||||||||
LGA(s) |
City of Port Lincoln[2] District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[2] District Council of Tumby Bay[2] | ||||||||||||
Region | Eyre and Western[3] | ||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Coordinates[2] |
The County of Flinders is one of the 49 counties of South Australia.[2]
Description
The County of Flinders covers the southern part of Eyre Peninsula “bounded on the north by a line connecting Point Drummond with Cape Burr, and on all other sides by the seacoast, including all islands adjacent to the main land.”[4][5]
History
The County of Flinders was proclaimed by George Grey, the third Governor of South Australia on 2 June 1842 for an area extending from Cape Wiles on the west side of the peninsula to Cape Catastrophe in the south and to the “northern extremity of Louth Bay” on the peninsula’s east coast.[1] The county was enlarged to its present extent in 1872.[5] It was named by Grey after Matthew Flinders, the British navigator.[2]
The following fifteen hundreds were proclaimed within the county between the years 1851 and 1903 - Cummins and Flinders in 1903, Hutchison in 1867, Koppio in 1867, Lake Wangary in 1871, Lincoln and Louth in 1851, Mortlock in 1904, Sleaford in 1871, Stokes in 1878, Uley in 1871, Ulipa in 1879, Wanilla in 1871 , Warrow in 1869 and Yaranyacka in 1872.[6]
List of constituent hundreds
The County of Flinders consists of the following hundreds: [4]
- Hundred of Cummins
- Hundred of Flinders
- Hundred of Hutchison
- Hundred of Koppio
- Hundred of Lake Wangary
- Hundred of Lincoln
- Hundred of Louth
- Hundred of Mortlock
- Hundred of Sleaford
- Hundred of Stokes
- Hundred of Uley
- Hundred of Ulipa
- Hundred of Wanilla
- Hundred of Warrow
- Hundred of Yaranyacka
References
- 1 2 "PROCLAMATION" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 1842: 1–2. 2 June 1842. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Search result for "County of Flinders (CNTY)" (Record noSA0024418) with the following layers selected - "Local Government Areas", "Counties" and "Hundreds"". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ↑ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- 1 2 "HUNDRED MAP Series Index Map" (PDF). Department of Environment and Heritage, Government of South Australia. December 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- 1 2 "PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 1872 (9): 1. 22 February 1872. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ↑ Leadbeater, Maureen (2014). "Counties & Hundreds of South Australia". FamilyHistorySA. Retrieved 20 July 2016.