Murdinga, South Australia

Murdinga
South Australia
Murdinga is located in South Australia
Murdinga
Murdinga
Coordinates33°43′20″S 135°42′31″E / 33.7223°S 135.7087°E / -33.7223; 135.7087
Population72 (SAL 2021)[1]
Established1936[2]
Postcode(s)5607[3]
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Elliston[2]
RegionEyre and Western[4]
CountyJervois
Musgrave[2]
State electorate(s)Flinders[5]
Federal division(s)Grey[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
25.2 °C
77 °F		 9.3 °C
49 °F		 312.9 mm
12.3 in
Localities around Murdinga:
Kappawanta Lock Murlong
Kappawanta
Tooligie		 Murdinga Murlong
Tooligie Tooligie Hincks
FootnotesLocations[3]
Climate[7]
Adjoining localities[2]

Murdinga is a locality in South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about 297 kilometres (185 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide.[3] The name reportedly stems from an Aboriginal word for "cold".[8]

It includes a railway siding with bulk grain facilities on the Eyre Peninsula Railway and is adjacent to the Tod Highway south of Lock.[2][9][10]

Murdinga began as a government town surveyed in January 1936 and proclaimed by Governor Dugan on 19 March 1936. The boundaries of the locality were “created in November 1999 for the long established name” and include the government town of Murdinga.[2]

The Murdinga Hall was opened in 1953.[11] The Murdinga Country Fire Service station opened in 1955.[12] Murdinga School opened in 1938 and closed in 1961.[8] The United (Murdinga) Football Club operated in the Central Areas Football Association from 1946 until the league's disbandment in 1957, before merging with Karkoo to form the United Football Club in the Great Flinders Football League.[13] It also formerly had a cricket club in the Middle Areas Cricket Association.[14]

The principal land use within the locality is ‘primary production’ which is mainly concerned with grain and wool production. It also includes part of the protected area known as the Bascombe Well Conservation Park.[15][2] Murdinga includes the Wilgerup station which is the site of a proposed iron ore mine to be operated by Centrex Metals.[16]

Murdinga is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Elliston.[6][5][2]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Murdinga (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Search result for "Murdinga (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0047908) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas", "Counties" and Development Plan Layers". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Murdinga, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KYANCUTTA (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Place Names of South Australia - M". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Wilgerup Iron Ore Mining Proposal" (PDF). Centrex Metals. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Murdinga" (PDF). Viterra. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  11. ^ "OFFICIAL OPENING OF MURDINGA HALL ON. SATURDAY". Port Lincoln Times. Vol. XXVI, no. 1, 481. South Australia. 25 June 1953. p. 1. Retrieved 29 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Murdinga". South Australian Country Fire Service Promotions Unit. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  13. ^ "Club History". United Yeelanna Football Club. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  14. ^ "WARRACHIE". Port Lincoln Times. Vol. XII, no. 603. South Australia. 25 May 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "Development Plan, Elliston (DC), Consolidated – 7 January 2013" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 6, 111 and 163–164. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  16. ^ "Wilgerup". Centrex Metals. Retrieved 23 March 2015.