Mount Mary, South Australia

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Mount Mary
South Australia
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Mount Mary
Coordinates 34°06′28″S139°26′16″E / 34.107902°S 139.43783°E / -34.107902; 139.43783 [1]
Population36 (SAL 2021) [2]
Established24 January 1884 (town)
27 March 2003 (locality) [3] [4]
Postcode(s) 5374
Elevation95 m (312 ft) [5]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s) Mid Murray Council [1]
Region Murray and Mallee [1]
County Eyre [1]
State electorate(s) Chaffey [6]
Federal division(s) Barker [7]
Mean max temp [8] Mean min temp [8] Annual rainfall [8]
21.1 °C
70 °F		9.3 °C
49 °F		448.6 mm
17.7 in
Localities around Mount Mary:
Beatty Beatty Eba
Bower Mount Mary Eba
Brownlow Brownlow
Blanchetown 		Blanchetown
FootnotesAdjoining localities [1]

Mount Mary (formerly Krichauff and Beatty) is a small town on the Thiele Highway between Eudunda and Morgan in South Australia. It was also served by the Morgan railway line from 1878 until 1969 and is named for the Mount Mary railway station on that line.

Despite the town's name, the terrain is essentially flat, and is believed to have been a corruption of Mound Mary. The town was originally surveyed in 1883 and named Krichauff in 1884, after the Hundred of Krichauff which in turn was named for Friedrich Krichauff. The name was changed from a name of enemy origin in 1918 to Beatty (along with the name of the hundred) then again in 1940 to Mount Mary to match the name of the railway station. [9] [10] Beatty remains the name of the locality covering the northern half of the hundred of Beatty.

Mount Mary School opened as the Krichauff School in 1886. It was renamed Mount Mary in 1896, and temporarily closed from 1909 to 1913. The school closed permanently in 1956. [11]

Mount Mary still has a hotel serving the community and travellers, but little other business remains other than farming. The town contains ten homes, the pub, and a working telephone box. [12]

Mount Mary is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Chaffey and the local government area of the Mid Murray Council. [7] [6] [1]

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References

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    Citations
    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search results for 'Mount Mary, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Counties', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Gazetteer' and 'Roads'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
    2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Mary (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
    3. ↑ Bray, J.C. (24 January 1884). "Untitled proclamation re the Town of Krichauff" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 291. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
    4. ↑ Weatherill, Jay (27 March 2003). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (in the Mid Murray Council)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1184. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
    5. ↑ "Search results for 'Mount Mary Railway Station' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Gazetteer' and 'Railways'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
    6. 1 2 "District of Chaffey (map)". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
    7. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
    8. 1 2 3 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics EUDUNDA (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
    9. ↑ "Placename Details: Mount Mary". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 31 March 2010. SA0047016. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
    10. ↑ "NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . South Australia. 26 July 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 5 September 2016– via National Library of Australia.
    11. ↑ Dreckow, Betty (1986). Hills, Valley and Plains: History of the Eudunda District. p. 140.
    12. ↑ Mike Gribble (30 January 2016). "Mt Mary Hotel is the pub with no peer in a town time forgot". Sunday Mail. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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