The Hundred of Caltowie is a
cadastral
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
unit of
hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
in
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 township of
Caltowie.
It is one of the 14 hundreds of the
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 ...
and was proclaimed by Governor
James Fergusson in July 1871.
Towns and localities
The Government Town of Caltowie, slightly to the south of the hundred's centre, which was named for the hundred, was surveyed a few months after the hundred proclamation in November 1871.
Adjacent localities of
Caltowie West and
Caltowie North were officially named as such, based on the long associated names, with reference to their position within the hundred. The only other bounded locality within the hundred is the western flank of
Jamestown (that part west of the
Mannanarie Hills ridge line) on the eastern side of the hundred.
Local government
The
District Council of Caltowie The District Council of Caltowie was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Caltowie and surrounding cadastral Hundred of Caltowie. It came into operation on 28 February 1878, with the first five councillors appointed ...
was established in 1878, bringing local government to the hundred. In 1935, Caltowie council amalgamated with parts of the
District Council of Belalie and
District Council of Yongala
The District Council of Yongala was a local government area in South Australia from 1883 to 1935, seated at Yongala.
History
The council was established on 8 March 1883 as the first local government in the area. It initially covered only the H ...
to form the
District Council of Jamestown. In 1997 the Jamestown council was abolished and the hundred became a part of the much larger
Northern Areas Council
Northern Areas Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat and main council offices are at Jamestown, while the council also maintains district offices at Gladstone and Spalding.
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.
See also
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Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
The lands administrative divisions of South Australia are the cadastral (i.e., comprehensively surveyed and mapped) units of counties and hundreds in South Australia. They are located only in the south-eastern part of the state, and do not cove ...
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