Franklyn, South Australia

Franklyn
South Australia
Franklyn is located in South Australia
Franklyn
Franklyn
Coordinates33°08′18″S 139°04′18″E / 33.13847°S 139.071736°E / -33.13847; 139.071736[1]
Population0 (SAL 2021)[2]
Postcode(s)5421[3]
LGA(s)Regional Council of Goyder[1]
RegionYorke and Mid North[1]
CountyKimberley[1]
State electorate(s)Stuart[3]
Federal division(s)Grey[3]
Localities around Franklyn:
Ucolta Parnaroo Hardy
Terowie Franklyn Pine Creek
Wonna Wonna Pine Creek
FootnotesAdjoining localities[4]

Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.[3] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". It comprises the northern section of the cadastral Hundred of Wonna.[4] The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire.[5]

Franklyn was surveyed as a government town in May 1880, but the town was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 9 February 1984.[4] Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917.[6] A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908.[7][8] A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916, while Pandappa Dam School opened in 1893 and closed in 1898.[5][9]

In October 1908, a correspondent to The Chronicle in Adelaide wrote that "there used to be a lot of people living here, but [...] it is very lonely now. There are only about a dozen families here, mostly farmers [...] and dairymen. We have a school and a church, however, so that we are not total barbarians. We also have a post-office, although we have only one mail a week."[10] In 1916, it was proposed to rename the town Wonna to avoid confusion with "Franklin", a subdivision in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Pennington, but this did not occur.[5][11]

The 1051-hectare Pandappa Conservation Park is located entirely within Franklyn.[3][12]

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  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Franklyn (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c d e "Search result(s) for Franklyn, 5421". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Search result(s) for Franklyn, 5421". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Place Names of South Australia – F". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Franklyn". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Pandappa Dam". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  8. ^ "Search result(s) for Pandappa Post Office, Bldg". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Hallett Heritage Survey 1996" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  10. ^ "SOMETHING ABOUT FRANKLYN". The Chronicle. Vol. LI, no. 2, 617. South Australia. 17 October 1908. p. 46. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "Search result(s) for Franklin, Subd". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  12. ^ "Parks of the Mid North" (PDF). Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Retrieved 26 November 2016.