| Stephenston South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Drawing of the Hundred of Palmer, 1938, including the layout of the former Government Town of Stephenston. | |||||||||||||||
  Stephenston | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°22′59″S138°11′58″E / 32.38306°S 138.199306°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 0 (2016 census) [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 13 March 1997 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5433 [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Flinders Ranges Council [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Far North [1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Newcastle [1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Giles [5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey [6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Location [1] [4] Adjoining localities [1] | ||||||||||||||
Stephenston is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the eastern side of the Flinders Ranges about 285 kilometres (177 mi) north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of the municipal seat of Quorn. [1] [4]
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.
Boundaries for the locality were created in March 1997 for the “long established name“ which was “incorrectly spelt as Stephenson” in the South Australian Government Gazette of 13 March 1997 and is derived from the ceased Government Town of Stephenston whose site is located within the boundaries of the locality. [1] [3] [9]
The South Australian Government Gazette is the government gazette of the South Australian Government. First printed on 20 June 1839, the South Australian Government chose to have its own publication rather than using the local newspaper, South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register because the publishers were perceived as politically biased. The purpose was to publish government orders and acts with authority of the colonial secretary. Initially it was called South Australian Gazette.
The Government Town of Stephenston which was located in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Palmer was surveyed in February 1879, proclaimed on 17 July 1879 and was finally declared as ‘ceasing to exist’ on 11 May 1961. A school operated from 1881 to 1915 and a post office operated from November 1879 to 1904. [10] [11] [12]
The Hundred of Palmer is a cadastral hundred of the County of Newcastle in South Australia. It is located near 32.195°S, 138.215°E east of the township of Quorn, and south of the former town of Willochra which, although surveyed in 1860, never properly developed and was abandoned during the drought in the 1860s.
Land use within the locality is concerned with primary production activities such as “pastoral and farming-related activities.” [13]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Stephenston had a population of zero. [2]
The 2016 Australian census was the seventeenth national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 23,401,892 – an increase of 8.8 per cent or 1,894,175 people since the 2011 census. Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population.
Stephenston is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles and the local government area of the Flinders Ranges Council. [6] [5] [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.
Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
