The Hundred of Kulpara 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 ...

located on the northern

Yorke Peninsula The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located northwest and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. The peninsula is separated from Kangaroo Island to the south by Investigator Strai ...

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 ...

and centred on the township of Kulpara. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the

County of Daly The County of Daly is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1862 and named for Governor Dominick Daly. It covers the northern half of Yorke Peninsula stretching just east of the Hummock-Barunga Range in the we ...

and was proclaimed by Governor

Dominick Daly Sir Dominick Daly (11 August 1798 – 19 February 1868) was the Governor of Prince Edward Island from 11 July 1854 to 25 May 1859 and later Governor of South Australia from 4 March 1862 until his death on 19 February 1868. He was born in ...

on 12 June 1862. The hundred was named for a Kulpara Pastoral Station, a pastoral lease in the area in the mid 1800s. The name Kulpara is thought to derive from an indigenous term meaning 'water in the head'. Apart from the town of Kulpara, the hundred also contains the localities of

Paskeville Paskeville is a town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. It is located approximately 20 km east of Kadina on the Copper Coast Highway towards Adelaide. At the , Paskeville had a population of 178. The town's district is administratively ...

, Melton and South Hummocks.

Local government

The District Council of Green's Plains was established in 1871, bringing the hundreds of Kadina and Kulpara under local administration for the first time. In 1888 the new

District Council of Kadina The District Council of Kadina was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 to 1984. History It was established by the ''District Councils Act 1887'', which took effect from 5 January 1888. It comprised the former District Council of ...

absorbed all of Green's Plains as well as surrounding unincorporated lands in the hundreds of Moonta and

Wallaroo Wallaroo is a common name for several species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The word "wallaroo" is from the Dharug ''walaru'', and not a portmanteau of the words "kangaroo" and "wal ...

. On 1 July 1890 the

District Council of Kulpara A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

was established to locally govern the Hundred of Kulpara independent of Kadina council. In 1932, due to flagging population, Kulpara council was abolished and the Paskeville ward (the western third of the hundred) was returned to Kadina council while the remainder (the eastern two thirds of the hundred) was absorbed by the

District Council of Bute The District Council of Bute was a local government area in South Australia from 1885 to 1997. History It was proclaimed on 16 July 1885 as the District Council of Ninnes, and initially only included the Hundred of Ninnes. It held its first me ...

. Kadina district council ultimately became part of the

District Council of Northern Yorke Peninsula The District Council of Northern Yorke Peninsula was a local government area in South Australia from 1984 to 1997. The council seat was at Kadina. History The District Council of Northern Yorke Peninsula was formed on 1 July 1984 with the amalg ...

in 1977, which included both the township of Moonta and Kadina district, and then part of the

District Council of the Copper Coast The Copper Coast Council is a local government area in the Australian state of South Australia located at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula. It was established in 1997 and its seat is in Kadina. Description The Copper Coast Council is l ...

in 1997, which included the slightly larger township of

with the rest of the

Copper Coast Copper Coast is a region of South Australia situated in Northern Yorke Peninsula and comprising the towns of Wallaroo, Kadina, Moonta, Paskeville and Port Hughes. The area approximately bounded by Wallaroo, Kadina and Moonta is also known as ...

district. Bute district council ultimately became part of the

District Council of Barunga West The Barunga West Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat is at Port Broughton, with a sub-office at Bute. Description The council takes its name from the Barunga Range in the ...

in 1997 by amalgamation with the

District Council of Port Broughton The District Council of Port Broughton was a local government area in South Australia from 1892 to 1997 seated at the town of Port Broughton. History It was proclaimed on 9 June 1892 as the District Council of Mundoora by the severance of the Hu ...

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