| Walloway South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 The Peterborough–Quorn railway line, which closed in 1988, at Walloway locality in 2006. Two years later the rails were removed. | |||||||||||||||
  Walloway | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°38′12″S 138°35′15″E / 32.63668843°S 138.58746293°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 8 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1881[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5431 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Orroroo Carrieton[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[4] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Dalhousie[2] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates[2] Locations[3][2] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[2] | ||||||||||||||
Walloway (formerly Rye) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 255 kilometres (158 mi) north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the municipal seat of Orroroo.[2][3]
The principal land use within the locality is primary production.[2]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Walloway (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Placename Details: Walloway". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 31 March 2010. SA0016895. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
Other Details: Town surveyed in November 1881. Originally proclaimed as Rye on 30/3/1882. Name altered in 1940 to agree with the name of the railway station. Walloway is a native name for a large plain frequented by wild turkeys. Government Town declared ceased to exist on 30/6/1988. Former name of Rye put forward to the Nomenclature Committee for name alteration by postal authorities due to similarity of name to Wye. Not acted upon by Nomenclature Committee. Boundaries created for the long established name in December 1999. Incorporates the ceased Government Town of Walloway.
- ^ a b c "Postcode for Wallaway, South Australia (sic)". Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ "District of Stuart Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Summary (climate) Summary statistics YONGALA (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
