County of Flinders

This article is about the South Australian cadastral division. For the New South Welsh cadastral division, see Flinders County.
Flinders
South Australia
Flinders
Coordinates 34°30′07″S 135°41′56″E / 34.502°S 135.699°E / -34.502; 135.699Coordinates: 34°30′07″S 135°41′56″E / 34.502°S 135.699°E / -34.502; 135.699
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]
Lands administrative divisions around Flinders:
Musgrave Musgrave
Jervois		 Jervois
Ocean Flinders Spencer Gulf
Ocean Ocean Spencer Gulf
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]

References

  1. 1 2 "PROCLAMATION" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 1842: 1–2. 2 June 1842. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  4. 1 2 "HUNDRED MAP Series Index Map" (PDF). Department of Environment and Heritage, Government of South Australia. December 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  5. 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.
  6. ↑ Leadbeater, Maureen (2014). "Counties & Hundreds of South Australia". FamilyHistorySA. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
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