Georgetown is a town in the Mid North region of South Australia. The town is in the Northern Areas Council, north of the state capital, Adelaide on the

Horrocks Highway Main North Road is the major north-south arterial route through the suburbs north of the Adelaide City Centre in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It continues north through the settled areas of South Australia and is a total of long, fro ...

(Main North Road). At the 2006 census, Georgetown had a population of 119. Georgetown was one of the first towns to be surveyed in the upper Mid North when the

Strangways Act The Strangways Land Act, Strangways Act or Waste Lands Amendment Act, were common names for legislation enacted in January 1869 in the colony of South Australia, formally titled ''An Act to further amend the "Waste Lands Act" 1869''. The Act ena ...

was passed in 1869 to authorise resumption of pastoral leases to enable closer settlement for more intensive farming purposes. It was surveyed in 1869, along with Redhill. It was the seat of the District Council of Georgetown from 1876 to 1988, but following two successive amalgamations with neighbouring councils, it is now part of the Northern Areas Council. Georgetown was on the Gladstone railway line from Adelaide. This was constructed in 1894 as narrow gauge. It was converted to broad gauge in 1927 and closed in 1988.

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