County of Hore-Ruthven is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land both in the north of the Eyre Peninsula and to the peninsula's north. It was proclaimed in 1933 and was named after Alexander Hore-Ruthven, the

Governor of South Australia The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the governor-gene ...

from 1928 to 1934.

Description

The county covers land extending from the southern end of Lake Gairdner in the north-west to the northern end of

Lake Gilles A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

in the south-east. Its southern end is located within the Eyre Peninsula. It is bounded to the west by the County of Bosanquet, to the south by the Counties of Buxton and York, and to the east by the County of Manchester. The county contains no formal settlements, but it does include, in part, the following localities of which the majority are based on

pastoral lease A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands. Australia Pastoral lease ...

s: Bungeroo,

Buckleboo Buckleboo is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula located about northwest of the state capital of Adelaide and about northwest of the municipal seat of Kimba. Buckleboo began as a government town, surv ...

Carriewerloo Carriewerloo Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated approximately north of Iron Knob and west of Port Augusta. The property was established at some time prior to 1863 when it was own ...

, Cooyerdoo,

Corunna Station Corunna Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated approximately north of Iron Knob and north west of Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula. Corunna takes its name from Caroona Hill that was an im ...

, Gilles Downs, Katunga Station, Kolendo, Lake Gairdner,

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Nonning Nonning or Nonning Station is both a pastoral lease and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. The property operates as a sheep station; the name and boundaries of the formal locality were created on 26 April 2013 for the long establishe ...

, Siam, Uno, Wartaka, Yeltana and Yudnapinna. The county is served by the following roads – the Eyre Highway passes through the south-east corner of the county on its way from Iron Knob in the east to Kimba in the west, and the Nonning Road passes through the county in a west–east direction on its way from Iron Knob to

Kingoonya Kingoonya, originally spelt Kingoonyah, pronounced ( ), was a small settlement, or township, now almost totally abandoned, in the central outback of the Australian state of South Australia. It was established in 1916 as a railway settlement on t ...

in the north. No hundreds have ever been proclaimed within the county.

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{{Counties of South Australia, state=collapsed Hore-Ruthven Hore-Ruthven Hore-Ruthven

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