Daly | |||||||||||||
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 Abandoned Wallaroo Mines site in the Hundred of Wallaroo | |||||||||||||
  Daly | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°53′S 137°57′E / 33.89°S 137.95°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1862 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 4,294 km2 (1,658 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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The County of Daly is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1862 and named for Governor Dominick Daly.[1] It covers the northern half of Yorke Peninsula stretching just east of the Hummock-Barunga Range in the west and just past the Broughton River in the north.[1]
Hundreds
[edit]The county is divided into the following sixteen hundreds from north to south:
- Hundred of Mundoora (Fisherman Bay, Clements Gap, Mundoora, Port Broughton)
- Hundred of Redhill (Redhill, Mundoora, Collinsfield)
- Hundred of Wokurna (Port Broughton, Wokurna)
- Hundred of Barunga (Snowtown, Hope Gap)
- Hundred of Tickera (Tickera, Alford)
- Hundred of Wiltunga (Bute)
- Hundred of Cameron (Bumbunga, Lochiel, Barunga Gap)
- Hundred of Ninnes (Ninnes, Thomas Plain)
- Hundred of Kadina (Kadina, Willamulka, Thrington)
- Hundred of Wallaroo (Wallaroo, Kadina, Moonta)
- Hundred of Kulpara (Kulpara, Paskeville, South Hummocks, Melton)
- Hundred of Clinton (Kainton, Clinton, Port Arthur)
- Hundred of Tiparra (Nalyappa, Agery, Sunnyvale, Arthurton, Weetulta)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Search for 'County of Daly, CNTY' (ID SA0017776)". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.