Franklyn, South Australia

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Franklyn
South Australia
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Franklyn
Coordinates 33°08′18″S139°04′18″E / 33.13847°S 139.071736°E / -33.13847; 139.071736 Coordinates: 33°08′18″S139°04′18″E / 33.13847°S 139.071736°E / -33.13847; 139.071736 [1]
Population7 (2016 census) [2]
Postcode(s) 5421 [3]
LGA(s) Regional Council of Goyder [1]
Region Yorke and Mid North [1]
County Kimberley [1]
State electorate(s) Stuart [3]
Federal Division(s) Grey [3]
Localities around Franklyn:
Ucolta Parnaroo Hardy
Terowie Franklyn Pine Creek
Wonna Wonna Pine Creek
FootnotesAdjoining localities [4]

Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder. [3] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". It comprises the northern section of the cadastral Hundred of Wonna. [4] The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire. [5]

Franklyn was surveyed as a government town in May 1880, but the town was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 9 February 1984. [4] Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917. [6] A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908. [7] [8] A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916, while Pandappa Dam School opened in 1893 and closed in 1898. [5] [9]

In October 1908, a correspondent to The Chronicle in Adelaide wrote that "there used to be a lot of people living here, but [...] it is very lonely now. There are only about a dozen families here, mostly farmers [...] and dairymen. We have a school and a church, however, so that we are not total barbarians. We also have a post-office, although we have only one mail a week." [10] In 1916, it was proposed to rename the town Wonna to avoid confusion with "Franklin", a subdivision in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Pennington, but this did not occur. [5] [11]

The 1051-hectare Pandappa Conservation Park is located entirely within Franklyn. [3] [12]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Franklyn had seven people living within its boundaries. [2]

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  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Franklyn (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 25 December 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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  5. 1 2 3 "Place Names of South Australia – F". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Franklyn". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Pandappa Dam". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Search result(s) for Pandappa Post Office, Bldg". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  9. ↑ "Hallett Heritage Survey 1996" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "SOMETHING ABOUT FRANKLYN". The Chronicle . LI (2, 617). South Australia. 17 October 1908. p. 46. Retrieved 26 November 2016– via National Library of Australia.
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