Hundred of Inkerman
The Hundred of Inkerman is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains in South Australia and bounded on the north by the Wakefield River.[1] It is one of the eight hundreds of the County of Gawler.[2] It was named in 1856 by Governor Richard MacDonnell after the Crimean War Battle of Inkerman.[1]
| Inkerman South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Inkerman | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34.24°S 138.24°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 22 May 1856 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 228 km2 (88.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||||
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The following localities and towns of the Wakefield Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Inkerman:
- Wild Horse Plains (northern half)
- Inkerman
- Kallora (western half)
- Proof Range
- Port Wakefield
- Bowmans (southern half)
Local government
On 28 November 1878 the District Council of Port Wakefield was established, incorporating the entire Hundred of Inkerman as well as the western two thirds of the Hundred of Goyder and a small coastal portion of the Hundred of Clinton near the Wakefield port.[3]
In 1983 the Port Wakefield council amalgamated with the councils of Balaklava and Owen bringing the hundred under the local governance of the District Council of Wakefield Plains. Then in 1997 Wakefield Plains and Blyth-Snowtown councils merged bringing the hundred into the much larger Wakefield Regional Council as a part of its Central ward.
References
- "Search for 'Hundred of Inkerman' (ID SA0032055)". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
- "Proclamations" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (55 ed.). Government of South Australia. 1878: 1568. 28 November 1878. Retrieved 3 July 2017.