Dismal Swamp, South Australia

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Dismal Swamp
South Australia
Dismal Swamp is located in South Australia
Dismal Swamp
Dismal Swamp
Coordinates37°41′42″S 140°43′00″E / 37.695090°S 140.716670°E / -37.695090; 140.716670[1]
Population63 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established1999[3]
Postcode(s)5291[4]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Grant[1]
RegionLimestone Coast[5]
CountyGrey[1]
State electorate(s)Mount Gambier[6]
Federal division(s)Barker[7]
Mean max temp[8] Mean min temp[8] Annual rainfall[8]
19.0 °C
66 °F		 8.2 °C
47 °F		 710.9 mm
28 in
Suburbs around Dismal Swamp:
Koorine Wepar
Tarpeena		 Tarpeena
Mingbool
Glencoe Dismal Swamp Mingbool
Glencoe Wandilo Mingbool
FootnotesLocations[4][1]
Adjoining localities[1]

Dismal Swamp is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 361 kilometres (224 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of the municipal seat of Mount Gambier.[1][4]

Boundaries for the locality were created in February 1999 for the “long established name.”[1][3] The name Dismal Swamp was used as early as 1845 when Anthony Sutton used the name for an occupation license on land described as being near Tarpeena. It is possible the name was inspired by the Great Dismal Swamp in the United States of America. A school with the name operated from 1948 to 1954.[9]

Dismal Swamp is bounded on its east side by the Riddoch Highway which passes through the locality from north to south[1] The Mount Gambier railway line which has been closed to freight since 12 April 1995 and tourist services since 1 July 2006,[citation needed] passes from north to south through the locality. The site of the former Wandilo railway station is located just north of the locality‘s southern boundary with Wandilo. The former Glencoe branch line passed through what is now the locality from 1904 to 1959 from the junction with the Mount Gambier railway line in Wandilo to the terminus in Glencoe.[1][10][11]

The principal land use in the locality is primary production. Three parcels of land have been proclaimed for conservation purposes as the Telford Scrub Conservation Park and as the native forest reserves respectively known as Grundy Lane and Wandilo.[1][12][13]

Dismal Swamp is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mount Gambier and the local government area of the District Council of Grant.[7][6][1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Search result for "Dismal Swamp (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0038178 with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "County", "Hundred", "Place names (gazetteer)", "Road Labels" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Dismal Swamp (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 Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 1159. 25 February 1999. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Postcode for Dismal Swamp, South Australia". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Limestone Coast SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. ^ a b "District of Mount Gambier Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  8. ^ a b c "Summary (climate) Summary statistics MOUNT GAMBIER AERO (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  9. ^ "Place Names of South Australia - D". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  10. ^ "THE WANDILO-GLENCOE RAILWAY". Adelaide Observer. Vol. LXI, no. 3, 282. South Australia. 27 August 1904. p. 4 (The Observer Country Supplement). Retrieved 23 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ Wandilo and Glencoe Railway (discontinuance) Act, 1959. No. 27, Government Printer, 24 May 2011, retrieved 31 July 2015
  12. ^ "Development Plan, Grant Council, Consolidated – 11 February 2016" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 199–200, 204 and 261. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  13. ^ "FORESTRY ACT 1950 SECTION 3: DECLARATION OF NATIVE FOREST RESERVES" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 884–885. 15 March 2001. Retrieved 23 March 2017.