County of Jervois

Jervois
South Australia
The main street of Cowell in 2006
Jervois is located in South Australia
Jervois
Jervois
Coordinates33°41′48″S 136°24′41″E / 33.696620°S 136.411470°E / -33.696620; 136.411470
Established1878[1]
Area9,600 square kilometres (3,700 sq mi)[2]
LGA(s)Cleve
Elliston (part)
Franklin Harbour
Tumby Bay (part)[2]
RegionEyre Western[3][2]
Lands administrative divisions around Jervois:
Le Hunte Le Hunte
Buxton
York
Spencer Gulf
Musgrave Jervois Spencer Gulf
Flinders Flinders Spencer Gulf
FootnotesCoordinates[2]
Adjoining counties[4]

The County of Jervois is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 24 January 1878 and named after William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia from October 1877 to January 1883.[1][2][4]

  1. ^ a b Morgan, William (24 January 1878). "untitled (proclamation of a new county)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 1878. Government of South Australia: 133-134. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Search result for "County of Jervois (CNTY)" (Record no SA0048182) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Placename (Gazetteer)", "Development Plan Layers" and "Government Regions"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference hundreds-map was invoked but never defined (see the help page).