| District Council of Stirling South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  District Council of Stirling | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°00′S138°43′E / 35.000°S 138.717°E Coordinates: 35°00′S138°43′E / 35.000°S 138.717°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1883 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Stirling | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Stirling was a local government area of South Australia from 1883 to 1997, seated at Stirling.
The council was established in 1883 from a western portion of the District Council of Echunga and an eastern portion of the District Council of Mitcham. [1]
Stirling council annexed a northerly-adjacent portion of the District Council of Crafers when it was abolished in 1935, enlarging the council area in a region of high population growth.
In 1997 Stirling amalgamated with the district councils of Onkaparinga and East Torrens to its north, and the District Council of Gumeracha, to form the much larger Adelaide Hills Council.
The Stirling council area is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 94,330. It was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central local government region, and it covers most of Stirlingshire and the south-western portion of Perthshire. Both counties were abolished for local government purposes under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
Adelaide Hills Council is a local government area in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. It is in the hills east of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and extends from the South Para Reservoir in the north to the Mount Bold Reservoir in the south.
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The County of Frome is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia in straddling the Mid North and Flinders Ranges regions. It was proclaimed in 1851 by Governor Henry Young and was named for the former Surveyor-General of South Australia, Edward Charles Frome. The iconic Mount Remarkable in the Hundred of Gregory is at the centre of the county.
The District Council of Strathalbyn was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Strathalbyn from 1854 until 1997. From 1868 the township itself was locally governed by the Corporation of Strathalbyn but that entity was amalgamated back into the district council in 1976.
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