The District Council of Carrieton was a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

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 ...

, centred on the town of

Carrieton Carrieton is a small town situated in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. It is located between the towns of Orroroo to the south and Cradock to the north. Originally opened in 1877 as Yanyarrie Whim, (Yanyarrie is in the local indigenou ...

from 1888 until 1997.

History

The council was established on 5 January 1888 as the District Council of Eurelia under the provisions of the ''

District Councils Act 1887 The District Councils Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of South Australia. It received assent on 9 December 1887, and its provisions came into effect when proclaimed by Governor William C. F. Robinson on 5 January 1888. The legislation intr ...

''. The name of the municipality was changed to Carrieton on 31 May 1894, and was divided into six wards in 1896. In 1923, the municipality covered 491,200 acres, 33 miles in length and 26 miles in breadth. It had consisted of the Hundreds of Bendleby, Eurelia, Eurilpa, McCulloch, O'Laddie, Uroonda, Yalpara and Yanyarrie since 1896, when two earlier additional hundreds (Minburra and Waroonce, together comprising the council's Minburra Ward) were severed. In 1923, it included the towns of Belton, Carrieton, Eurelia and Johnburgh, with 107 of the municipality's 847 residents living in Carrieton. Council chambers for the municipality were built in 1892 in Carrieton. On 10 August 1920, the council office, adjacent to the chambers, burnt down in a catastrophic fire, with the loss of all of the council's records to that date, and the death of the incumbent council clerk. The chambers were saved but the offices were completely gutted. A coronial inquest found that the clerk "came to his death...of his own act, but the evidence does not show whether such taking was accidental or incidental." The municipality ceased to exist in March 1997, when it merged with the adjacent

District Council of Orroroo The District Council of Orroroo was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Orroroo. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the ''District Councils Act 1887'' and included all the land defined by the ...

to create the

District Council of Orroroo Carrieton The District Council of Orroroo Carrieton is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The principal towns are Orroroo and Carrieton; it also includes the localities of Belton, Black Rock, Coomooroo, Erski ...

Chairmen of the District Council of Carrieton

* R. Sampson (1900) * W. H. Heaslip (1904–1905) * M. P. Daly (1910) * F. W. Whyte (1915) * T. M. Williams (1918–1922) * C. Halliday (1926) * T. M. Williams (1936) * Edmund Patrick Wall (1937–1958) * Sidney Frank Heaslip (1958–1970) * Ross Toufeek Rasheed (1970–1976) * William Arthur Shepherd (1976–1981) * Sidney Frank Heaslip (1981–1983) * Michael Thomas Manning (1983–?)

References

{{Former local government areas in South Australia