__NOTOC__ Mitchellville is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the east coast of

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about north-west of the state capital of

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and about north of the municipal seat of Cowell. Its boundaries were created in 1998 in respect to the “low established name” which is derived from John Mitchell which was an "early settler" in the area. Land use in Mitchellville is divided between primary industry and

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with the former being represented by “broadacre farming of cereals and livestock” and the latter being represented by the zoning of the land adjoining the coastline with Spencer Gulf. Mitchellville is located within the federal division of Grey, the state

electoral district of Flinders Flinders is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 58,901 km² coastal rural elector ...

and the local government area of the

District Council of Franklin Harbour The District Council of Franklin Harbour is a local government area in South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula. Cowell is the major population centre of an agricultural district based on farming wheat and sheep, supplemented by a fishing and oyste ...

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