| Saltia South Australia | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pichi Richi Railway carriages stopped at Saltia before entering the Pichi Richi Pass | |||||||||||||||
  Saltia | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°28′27″S137°55′57″E / 32.474202°S 137.932426°E Coordinates: 32°28′27″S137°55′57″E / 32.474202°S 137.932426°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 10 (2016 census) [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1862 (sub-division) 13 December 1984 (place) 17 February 1994 (locality) [1] [3] [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5433 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 183 m (600 ft)(railway station) [5] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
| ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | |||||||||||||||
| Region | Far North [1] Yorke and Mid North [1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Frome [1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Giles [6] Stuart [7] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey [8] | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Footnotes | Locations [1] Adjoining localities [1] | ||||||||||||||
Saltia is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of the Flinders Ranges about 279 kilometres (173 mi) north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 19 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Port Augusta. [1]
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of less than 30,000.
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.
Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "The City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide. The locality is split into two key geographical distinctions: the city "square mile", bordered by North, East, South and West Terraces; and the section of the parklands south of the River Torrens which separates the built up part of the city from the surrounding suburbs and North Adelaide.
Saltia began as a private sub-division associated with Sections 901 and 902 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Woolundunga in 1862. [1] The developer was Charles Simmons who purchased the land prior to 1859 followed by the erection of a hotel in the same year and the layout of the "town" in 1862. The name is derived from an Aboriginal word thaltja meaning "the gums" and spelt as thaltia in 1855. A post office was opened around 1869. [10] [1] It was declared as a place name on 13 December 1984. [3] Boundaries for the part of the locality within the City of Port Augusta in the west were proclaimed on 17 February 1994 while the part within the District Council of Mount Remarkable in the south-east was added on 13 March 1997. [4] [11]
Subdivision is the act of dividing land into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat. The former single piece as a whole is then known in the United States as a subdivision. If it is used for housing it is typically known as a housing subdivision or housing development, although some developers tend to call these areas communities.
The Hundred of Woolundunga is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia spanning Mount Brown Conservation Park and including the localities of Woolundunga and Saltia. It is one of the 14 hundreds of the County of Frome close to the northeast coast of Spencer Gulf.
The road known as Flinders Ranges Way and the Pichi Richi Railway both pass through the locality in a west-east direction from Port Augusta towards Quorn. [1]
The Flinders Ranges Way is the main road route through the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It starts from the Augusta Highway at Stirling North, 6 km southeast of Port Augusta. The Flinders Ranges Way extends 209 km to Blinman. Route B83 follows the Flinders Ranges Way through Quorn to Hawker, but then branches onto the Barndioota Road along the western side of the ranges through Leigh Creek to Lyndhurst.
The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society (PRRPS) is a non-profit railway preservation society and operating museum formed in 1973. The society, managed and staffed by volunteer members, operates heritage steam and diesel trains on the restored 39 kilometre section of track between Quorn and Port Augusta in South Australia.
Quorn is a township and railhead in the Flinders Ranges in the north of South Australia, 39 km 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.
At the 2016 census, Saltia had a population of 10 people. [2]
Saltia is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral districts of Giles and Stuart and the local government areas of the City of Port Augusta, the District Council of Mount Remarkable and the Flinders Ranges Council. [8] [6] [7] [1]
The Division of Grey is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for Sir George Grey, who was Governor of South Australia from 1841 to 1845.
Giles is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after explorer Ernest Giles, it is the largest electorate in the state by area, covering 497,005 km2 (191,895 sq mi) of South Australian outback. Its main population centre is the industrial city of Whyalla on the far south-east border of the seat which represents half of the electorate's voters. The electorate covers significant areas of pastoral leases and Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal land stretching to the Western Australian and Northern Territory borders, taking in the remote towns of Andamooka, Coober Pedy, Ernabella, Fregon, Marla, Mimili, Mintabie, Oodnadatta, and Tarcoola. Giles also has a far north mobile booth.
Stuart is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. At 330,656 km², it covers the northeast part of the state extending from just north of the Barossa Valley all the way to the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales borders. The seat's main population centre is Port Augusta, however the seat spans from Kapunda, 80 km north of Adelaide, up to the state borders, and includes the agricultural areas of Orroroo, Peterborough, Jamestown, Burra and Leigh Creek. Stuart is the second-largest electorate by area in South Australia.
