The Hundred of Port Adelaide 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 ...

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 ...

covering the vicinity of Port Adelaide,

Lefevre Peninsula The Lefevre Peninsula is a peninsula located in the Australian state of South Australia located about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. It is a narrow sand spit of about running north from its connection to the mainland. The name given ...

and the coast of the central Adelaide Plains south of Gawler River and west of

Port Wakefield Road Port Wakefield Highway (and its southern section as Port Wakefield Road) is an important South Australian highway, connecting Adelaide to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Wester ...

. It is one of the eleven 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 ...

and 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 ...

Local government

The

District Council of Yatala The District Council of Yatala was a local government area of South Australia established in 1853 and abolished in 1868. The council was named after the Hundred of Yatala which was proclaimed in 1846 in the County of Adelaide, Yatala likely der ...

was proclaimed in 1853, the first local government body in the hundred. As well as much of the centre of the

Hundred of Yatala The Hundred of Yatala is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia covering much of the Adelaide metropolitan area north of the River Torrens. It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide stretching from the Torrens in the sout ...

, it covered a vast undeveloped south eastern swathe of the Hundred of Port Adelaide, including the Dry Creek and North Arm Creek wetlands. In 1868 Yatala council split into Yatala South and Yatala North, the former still covering the semi-industrial townships east of Rosewater within the hundred, such as Wingfield, Grand Junction, and Burford Gardens near

Gepps Cross Gepps Cross (pronounced 'Jepps Cross') is a suburb and major road intersection in the north of Adelaide, South Australia. Gepps Cross is traditionally seen as the end of the inner suburbs and the start of the outer northern suburbs, as it was hom ...

. Yatala North council covered the undeveloped swamplands within the hundred between the

Little Para River The Little Para River is a seasonal creek running across the Adelaide Plains in the Australian state of South Australia, whose catchment fills reservoirs that supply some of the water needs of Adelaide’s northern suburbs. Course and features ...

and Dry Creek until the establishment of the

District Council of Salisbury The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located on the northern fringes of Adelaide, South Australia. It had population of 137,979 people in 2016 and encompasses an area of 158 km². The council's main offices are situated i ...

took over local governance of the hundred east of the Barker Inlet and Dry Creek drain in 1933. In the same year Yatala South council was renamed to Enfield. The

Corporate Town of Port Adelaide The City of Port Adelaide was a local government area of South Australia centred at the port of Adelaide from 1855 to 1996. Early years The council was established on 27 December 1855 when the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was proclaimed as ...

was established in 1855, the first local government body on Lefevre Peninsula. Seated at Port Adelaide it was joined on the immediate south by the District Council of Portland Estate in 1859, a local government seated at the Portland Estate township which is now part of the modern locality of Port Adelaide. The Portland Estate council was the first of all the local government bodies on Lefevre Peninsula to amalgamate with the Port Adelaide municipality, which it did in 1884. The

District Council of Glanville The District Council of Glanville was a local government area in South Australia from 1864 to 1888. History It was first proclaimed on 14 July 1864. A month later on 11 August, another proclamation rescinded the initial proclamation, due to an er ...

was established in 1864 along the coast and protruded into the south west extremity of the hundred. The part of Glanville council within the Hundred of Port Adelaide was absorbed into new the

Corporate Town of Semaphore The corporate town of Semaphore was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 20 December 1883, and re-gazetted on 17 January 1884, from areas which had been part of the District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula and District ...

in 1884. The District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula was established at Exeter in 1872 but it amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality in 1884. The

District Council of Birkenhead The District Council of Birkenhead was a local government area in South Australia centred on the suburb of Birkenhead. It was gazetted on 22 February 1877 from areas formerly part of the District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula. The council cham ...

was established in 1877 by secession from Lefevre's Peninsula council. By 1884, the latter amalgamated with Birkenhead council and in 1886 Birkenhead itself amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality. The

District Council of Rosewater The District Council of Rosewater was a local government area of South Australia immediately east of Port Adelaide from 1877 to 1899. History The council was established in 1877, centred on the ' Rosewater' subdivision on Grand Junction Road ...

on the other side of the

Port River The Port River (officially known as the Port Adelaide River) is part of a tidal estuary located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Australian state of South Australia. It has been used as a shipping channel since the beginning of European ...

estuary was established in 1877. Like the other port-side councils it too was amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality in 1889. In 1890, the municipality of Semaphore was the only remaining local government body on Lefevre Peninsula aside from Port Adelaide. It amalgamated with Port Adelaide municipality in 1900. When the City of Port Adelaide and City of Enfield were amalgamated in 1996, all of the urbanised parts of the Hundred of Port Adelaide were governed by the same local government body, the

City of Port Adelaide Enfield The City of Port Adelaide Enfield, located across inner north and north-western suburbs of Adelaide, is one of the largest metropolitan councils within South Australia. It was established on 26 March 1996 by the amalgamation of the City of Port ...

. The non-urbanised portion of the hundred north of the Dry Creek salt pans and west of

is still locally governed by the

City of Salisbury The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located on the northern fringes of Adelaide, South Australia. It had population of 137,979 people in 2016 and encompasses an area of 158 km². The council's main offices are situated in ...

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{{Reflist Port Adelaide 1846 establishments in Australia

Local government

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