| District Council of Kanyaka South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Quorn Town Hall was shared by Quorn and Kanyaka councils | |||||||||||||||
  District Council of Kanyaka | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°10′S138°10′E / 32.167°S 138.167°E Coordinates: 32°10′S138°10′E / 32.167°S 138.167°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1888 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1969 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Quorn | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Kanyaka was a local government area in South Australia that existed from 1888 to 1969.
The council was established on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887 . On creation, the council comprised the hundreds of Boolcunda, Cudlamudla, Kanyaka, Moockra and Palmer, and parts of the hundreds of Pichi Richi, Yarrah and Wyacca, east of the Middle Range and Dutchman's Range ridge line, which together make up the eastern two thirds of the County of Newcastle. [1] The council area thus extended north and east from Pichi Richi Pass (about 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest of Quorn) to a point about 10 km (6.2 mi) due south of Hawker.
The council was initially based out of the Quorn Town Hall, but later was housed in an office converted from a house in Eighth Street, Quorn. Both buildings were actually not in the council area, being instead within the Corporate Town of Quorn which was an enclave surrounded by Kanyaka council from 1888. Both the town hall and later office survive as of 2015; the latter building has reverted to residential use. [2] [3]
On 16 February 1933, the council gained a section of the abolished District Council of Woolundunga, which became the new Mundallio Ward. [4] By 1936, the council had seven wards (Pichi Richi, Suburban, Palmer, Boolcunda, Kanyaka, Mundallio and Yarrah), was reported to have a population of approximately 1,000, and was said to be one of the northernmost councils in South Australia. [5]
It merged with the Corporate Town of Quorn on 1 April 1969 to form the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn. [6]
Quorn is a small town and railhead in the Flinders Ranges in the north of South Australia, 39 kilometres (24 mi) northeast of Port Augusta. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 1,230, of which 1,131 lived in its town centre.
The former Central Australia Railway, which was built between 1878 and 1929 and closed in 1980, was a 1,241 km (771 mi) 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Port Augusta and Alice Springs. A standard gauge line duplicated the southern section from Port Augusta to Maree in 1957 on a new nearby alignment. The entire Central Australia Railway was superseded in 1980 after the standard gauge Tarcoola–Alice Springs Railway was opened, using a new route up to 200 km to the west. A small southern section of the original line between Port Augusta and Quorn has been preserved as the Pichi Richi Tourist Railway.
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about 200 km (125 mi) north of Adelaide. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over 430 km (265 mi) from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years.
Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
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The District Council of Woolundunga was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 until 1933.
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