Boulder is a
suburb in the
Western Australian Goldfields
The Western Australian Goldfields is a term for areas in Western Australia that have had significant areas of gold mining occur.
Range of goldfields
There are goldfields across the state of Western Australia, from the Kimberley region to the so ...
, east of
Perth
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and bordering onto the city of
Kalgoorlie in the
Eastern Goldfields region.
The Boulder (horse) Races were a significant event in early twentieth century goldfields region history.
The town maintained its separation from Kalgoorlie until the 1980s, however even prior to that era, many surveys and studies of the towns and their areas tended to join the names.
Prior to 1989, Boulder was a town, but it was merged with Kalgoorlie to form the
City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder
The City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder is a local government area in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, about east of the state capital, Perth. Covering an area of , the city is larger than the country of Portugal with a land ...
.
The population of Boulder in 1901 was 2,936 (1850 males and 1086 females), which increased to 5,658 (3090 males and 2568 females) in 1903.
At the
2006 census
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In mathematics
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, Boulder had a population of 5,178. This had decreased to 4,825 by the 2016 census.
On 20 April 2010 Kalgoorlie-Boulder suffered a magnitude 5.0 earthquake which damaged several of the historic buildings in Boulder.
Military history
During
World War II
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, Boulder was the location of
RAAF No.27 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot, completed in 1942 and closed on 14 June 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the
RAAF
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and the
US Army Air Forces
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at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).
See also
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Andrew Wilson (architect), designer of the Boulder Town Hall
References
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Suburbs of Kalgoorlie-Boulder