Canowie is a sparsely populated farming and grazing locality in the

Mid North The Mid North is a region of South Australia, north of the Adelaide Plains and south of the Far North and the outback. It is generally accepted to extend from Spencer Gulf east to the Barrier Highway, including the coastal plain, the southern ...

region of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

in the Hundred of Anne,

County of Victoria The County of Victoria is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor Richard MacDonnell in 1857 and probably named for Queen Victoria. It covers an area of the Spencer Gulf coast and hinterland in the Mi ...

. It is mainly sited on a relatively featureless plain, with the north-south trending Browne Hill Range to the west. A government sponsored town was surveyed in 1865 but it failed to thrive and so virtually nothing remains of the township today. The current boundaries of the locality were created in 2000. The locality is on the former pastoral leases of Canowie Station. It is believed that the Canowie station derived its name from Kanya-Owie, the Aboriginal name for a rock waterhole at the station homestead. The town was positioned on a major north-south travelling stock route where an ephemeral creek, Cundowie Creek, provided water for a public livestock pound. It followed the usual South Australian layout of a grid of streets surrounded by a generous belt of parklands. Street names and lot numbers appear in the Surveyor-General's plan, together with a water reserve and cemetery reserve. Sections of land were offered for sale by public auction but there were hardly any takers. As at 1870 the town had only two residents. A general store operated for some years and a Canowie Post Office opened on 1 September 1867. This was subsequently removed to Canowie Station homestead and closed on 22 February 1924. The town was declared to have been diminished in December 1930. Old Canowie, the homestead remnant of the former Canowie Station pastoral lease, is located some eleven kilometres due north and is now in the locality of Belalie East. The Canowie district has the

Hallett Power Station Hallett Power Station is located in Canowie, in the Mid North of South Australia, located about north of Adelaide. It was commissioned in 2001 and opened in 2002. It was built by AGL Energy, but was sold in 2007, and is currently operated by Ene ...

gas-fired power station within its bounds, and the Browne Hill part of the

Hallett Wind Farm The Hallett Wind Farm is the collective name for four wind farms near the town of Hallett, South Australia. They are owned and operated by AGL Energy. * Brown Hill (Hallett 1): 95MW, completed June 2008 * Hallett Hill (Hallett 2): 71MW, complete ...

along the western boundary.

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