| Alma South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Alma | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°14′24″S 138°38′49″E / 34.240°S 138.647°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 22 May 1856 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 360 km2 (138 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Northern Adelaide Plains | ||||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Alma is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Alma and the Alma Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell for the River Alma on the Crimean Peninsula, the location of the Battle of the Alma, the first Allied victory in the Crimean War.[1][2] The hundred is bounded on the north by the Wakefield River and on the south by the Light River
The Hundred of Alma includes all of the localities of Alma, Salter Springs, Woolshed Flat and parts of the localities of Hamley Bridge, Stockyard Creek, Undalya, Rhynie, Riverton, Giles Corner, Stockport. The largest town is now Hamley Bridge near the southern boundary.[3]
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- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Alma". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0001003. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
Derivation of Name: A battle in the Crimean War; Other Details: Area 138 square miles. The Wakefield River forms the northern boundary of the Hundred.
- ^ Manning, Geoffrey. "Alma" (PDF). Manning Index of South Austrlalian History - Place Names of South Australia. Retrieved 6 November 2017 – via State Library of South Australia.
The first surveys of the Hundred of Alma were made by James Elder in 1855 and it was proclaimed on 22 May 1856 during the vice-regal term of Sir Richard MacDonnell who, no doubt, dubbed it so because, on the banks of the River Alma in the Crimea, the allies gained their first victory in 1854; the name comes from a Tartar word meaning 'apple tree'.
- ^ "Hundreds, Suburbs and Localities". LocationSA Map Viewer. Retrieved 4 December 2020.