The Hundred of Kuitpo 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 des ...

in the Adelaide Hills. It is one of the 11 hundreds of the

County of Adelaide The County of Adelaide is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia and contains the city of Adelaide. It was proclaimed on 2 June 1842 by Governor Grey. It is bounded by the Gawler River and North Para River in the north, the Moun ...

. It was named in 1846 by Governor

Frederick Robe Major-General Frederick Holt Robe CB (1801 – 4 April 1871) was the fourth Governor of South Australia, from 25 October 1845 to 2 August 1848. Robe entered the Royal Staff Corps as an ensign in 1817, following his father, Sir William Robe wh ...

and is presumed to be derived from an indigenous term ''ku-it-po'', meaning reeds and referring to Blackfellow Creek in the contemporary locality of Yundi.

History

Being in the County of Adelaide, the hundred was proclaimed in 1846 along with the earliest hundred proclamations in the state. The early local administration of the hundred was split in 1853 between four new district councils established within a few months of each other: the

District Council of Willunga The District Council of Willunga, was a local government area in South Australia seated at Willunga from 1853 until 1997. History The District Council of Willunga was established on 18 August 1853 to govern the Hundred of Willunga and the southe ...

in the south west, the

District Council of Kondoparinga The District Council of Kondoparinga was a local government area in South Australia from 1853 until 1935, at which point the council lands and resources formed the heart of the new District Council of Meadows. History Kondoparinga was amongst ...

in the centre, the District Council of Clarendon in the north west, and the District Council of Echunga in the north east. The latter three were amalgamated with much of the

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in 1935 to form the District Council of Meadows.

Towns and localities

The following localities and towns of the

Alexandrina Council Alexandrina Council is a local government area in the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island region of South Australia. The Alexandrina Council was formed on 1 July 1997 by the amalgamation of the District Council of Port Elliot and Goolwa, the District C ...

area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Kuitpo: * Kuitpo * Blackfellows Creek * The Range (eastern part) * Montarra * Dingabledinga * Hope Forest * Kyeema * Kuitpo Colony * Mount Magnificent (north western part) The following localities and towns of the

City of Onkaparinga The City of Onkaparinga () is a local government area (LGA) located on the southern fringe of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Onkaparinga River, whose name comes from ''Ngangkiparinga'', a Kaurna word meaning women's river. It ...

are situated largely inside the bounds of the Hundred of Kuitpo: * Clarendon (south of

Onkaparinga River The Onkaparinga River, known as Ngangkiparri or Ngangkiparingga ("place of the women’s river") in the Kaurna language, is a river located in the Southern Adelaide region in the Australian state of South Australia. Rising in the Mount Lofty Ran ...

) * Kangarilla The following localities and towns of the

Mount Barker District Council The Mount Barker District Council is a local government area centred on the town of Mount Barker just outside the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern centra ...

area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Kuitpo: * Hahndorf (west of main street) * Paechtown * Echunga (most part) * Biggs Flat *

Chapel Hill Chapel Hill or Chapelhill may refer to: Places Antarctica * Chapel Hill (Antarctica) Australia *Chapel Hill, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane *Chapel Hill, South Australia, in the Mount Barker council area Canada * Chapel Hill, Ottawa, a neighbo ...

* Jupiter Creek *

Meadows A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or artificia ...

* Prospect Hill

References

{{Hundreds of South Australia Kuitpo

History

Towns and localities

See also

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