Everard Central (; postcode: 5461) is a locality in
South Australia
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's
Mid North
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.
The locality is situated in approximately the southern two thirds of the
cadastral Hundred of Everard.
Hundred of Everard
The Hundred of Everard is the
cadastral
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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 ...
on the northern
Adelaide Plains containing the Everard Central locality.
It is one of the 16 hundreds of the
County of Stanley. It was named in 1867 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 ...
after
William Everard (1819–1889), a South Australian parliamentarian.
The southern third of the locality of
Condowie is also situated inside the bounds of the Hundred of Everard.
Local government
In 1888 the Hundred of Everard was annexed to the
District Council of Blyth as part of the
District Councils Act 1887
The District Councils Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of South Australia. It received assent on 9 December 1887, and its provisions came into effect when proclaimed by Governor William C. F. Robinson on 5 January 1888.
The legislation intro ...
. Not long after, on 26 September 1889, the hundred was severed from Blyth council and annexed instead to the
District Council of Snowtown as the Everard ward.
In 1912, at the instigation of resident landowners, a southern portion of the hundred south of Everard Road and including the Everard Central township, was severed from Snowtown council and added to the
District Council of Balaklava as part of its Stow ward. From 1987, following the merging of Snowtown and Blyth councils, the larger north part of the hundred retained is ward status with 2 council representatives in the
Blyth-Snowtown council. From 1997, following the Blyth-Snowtown amalgamation with the
District Council of Wakefield Plains, the entire hundred became part of the much larger North ward of the
Wakefield Regional Council
Wakefield Regional Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat is at Balaklava.
Geography
The Wakefield Regional Council includes the towns and localities of Avon, Balaklava, Bar ...
.
Geology
Everard Central contains a series of ephemeral
salt lake basins. The
lunette formations at the basin edges contain deposits of
gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula . It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard or sidewalk chalk, and drywal ...
. Gypsum for agricultural use is mined at the site, with 35,000 tonnes being obtained by G.J. Mills and McArdle in 2002.
See also
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List of cities and towns in South Australia
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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 ...
References
External links
Wakefield Regional Council
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