Hansborough, South Australia

Hansborough
South Australia
Ruins located at Hansborough
Hansborough is located in South Australia
Hansborough
Hansborough
Coordinates34°15′09″S 139°00′47″E / 34.252474°S 139.013051°E / -34.252474; 139.013051[1]
Population47 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established1865 (town)
16 March 2000 (locality)[1][3]
Abolished13 August 1936 (town)[4]
Postcode(s)5374
Elevation333 m (1,093 ft)[citation needed]
Location
LGA(s)
State electorate(s)Stuart
Federal division(s)
Mean max temp[5] Mean min temp[5] Annual rainfall[5]
21.1 °C
70 °F
9.3 °C
49 °F
448.6 mm
17.7 in
Localities around Hansborough:
Buchanan Eudunda Eudunda
Buchanan
Bagot Well
Hansborough Eudunda
Dutton
Bagot Well Bagot Well
St Kitts
Dutton
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

Hansborough is a locality along the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region. It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda. The Light River runs through the locality.

A town was surveyed in July 1865 and named after Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812–1890), an early pastoralist and an overlander, who founded Anlaby Station, near Kapunda. It was declared as ceasing to exist on 13 August 1936.[6][1] Boundaries were created for the part of the locality within the Light Regional Council on 16 March 2000 and for the part within the Regional Council of Goyder which includes the ceased Government Town of Hansborough on 24 August 2000.[1][3]

The Morgan railway line opened in 1878 from Kapunda. Passenger services ceased in 1968 and the line was formally closed in 1994.

The Hundred of Neales School, later Freshwater Creek School, opened in 1927 in a former manager's residence on the Kingscourt property and closed in 1940.[7]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Search results for 'Hansborough, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', "Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Gazetteer' and 'Roads'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Hansborough (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (within the District Council of Kapunda and Light )" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. 5 December 1940. p. 1433. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  4. ^ "TOWN OF HANSBOROUGH TO CEASE TO EXIST" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. 13 August 1936. pp. 249–250. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics EUDUNDA (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  6. ^ "The Manning Index of South Australian History".
  7. ^ Dreckow, Betty (1986). Hills, Valley and Plains: History of the Eudunda District. p. 272.