Kielpa South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°35′15″S 136°13′25″E / 33.587572°S 136.223624°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 55 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 4 June 1914 (town) 23 December 1998 (locality)[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5642 | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | District Council of Cleve[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] |
Kielpa is a town and locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[1] It is midway between Rudall and Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.[1]
Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley.[5] Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,[6] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[7]