The Yorke Peninsula Council is a local government area in South Australia. Its boundaries include most of the Yorke Peninsula. The council seat is at Maitland; the council also maintains branch offices at Minlaton, Warooka and Yorketown.
Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about 91 kilometres (57 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the municipal seat of Maitland. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 969 of which 642 lived in its town centre.
Maitland is a town in South Australia located 168 km west of Adelaide by road, 164 km south of Port Pirie and 46 km north of Minlaton known as the "heart of Yorke Peninsula" due to being near the centre of the region. At the 2016 census, Maitland had a population of 1,029.
Price is a town and locality on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is within the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area and is 131 kilometres (81 mi) north west of the centre of state capital, Adelaide.
Robert Caldwell, occasionally referred to as "poet Caldwell", was a South Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1879 to 1902, representing the electorates of Yorke Peninsula (1879-1890) and Onkaparinga (1890-1902).
Wallaroo Mines is a suburb of the inland town of Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula in the Copper Coast Council area. It was named for the land division in which it was established in 1860, the Hundred of Wallaroo, as was the nearby coastal town of Wallaroo. The boundaries were formally gazetted in January 1999 for "the long established name".
Agery is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Yorke Peninsula. It is situated 17 km south-east of Moonta. Its name comes from the Aboriginal word ngadjali meaning "pipe clay".
South Kilkerran is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Yorke Peninsula between Maitland and Port Victoria.
Winulta was a town in the Australian state of South Australia on northern Yorke Peninsula around 10 km from Clinton on the Clinton-Maitland road. It was first settled for farming around 1876. The earliest farmers were William Short, Thomas Kenny and John Sharrad.
The District Council of Glanville was a local government area in South Australia from 1864 to 1888.
East Moonta is a rural locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula and a satellite village to the town of Moonta. It is located in the Copper Coast Council.
The Corporate Town of Moonta was a local government area in South Australia from 1872 to 1984, centred on the town of Moonta.
The District Council of Central Yorke Peninsula was a local government area in South Australia from 1969 to 1997. The council seat was at Maitland.
County of Fergusson is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia which spans Yorke Peninsula south of Price. It was proclaimed in 1869 by Governor Fergusson after whom the county was named.
The District Council of Green's Plains was a local government area in South Australia from 1871 to 1888. It was the first local government on the Yorke Peninsula.
The Yorke Peninsula Country Times is a South Australian newspaper which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed following the merging of the Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times and the South Australian Farmer, representing a combined ancestry of 13 former publications, with the earliest dating back to February 1865. It is headquartered in Kadina and its weekly publications are distributed across "the entire peninsula" from Port Broughton in the north to Stenhouse Bay in the south.
South Hummocks is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia at the head of Gulf St Vincent adjacent to Yorke Peninsula on the southeastern slopes of the Hummock Range.
George William Hannaford was a South Australian orchardist, pioneer of the apple export trade.
Peter Dowding Prankerd was an English businessman who made a fortune in Colonial South Australia real estate.
Henry Richard Hancock almost invariably referred to as "Captain Hancock" was a mine superintendent in Moonta and Wallaroo, South Australia. He was noted for his business acumen and the respect with which he was held by both workers and mine owners.
