Kyeamba Shire was a local government area in the

Riverina The Riverina is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation ...

region of

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, Australia. Kyeamba Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the ''

Local Government (Shires) Act 1905 Local Government (Shires) Act 1905 was a landmark New South Wales statute notable for the compulsory incorporation of local government areas A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is re ...

''. The shire offices were in

Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's la ...

. Other towns and villages in the shire included Book Book, Borambola, Gumly Gumly, Forest Hill,

Humula Humula is a small country town between Tarcutta and Tumbarumba in New South Wales, Australia. Humula was once named "American Yards" or "American Fields" during the gold rush, where many Chinese came for gold years ago. At the 2016 census, Hu ...

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, Lake Albert,

Pulletop Pulletop is a rural locality in the south eastern part of the Riverina The Riverina is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of f ...

Mangoplah Mangoplah is a town approximately south of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2016 census, Mangoplah had a population of 309. The name of the town is believed to mean "Kooris singing" in the Wiradjuri ab ...

and

Tarcutta Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is south-west of Sydney, east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446. It serves a local f ...

. In 1961 the population of Kyeamba Shire was 484

Kyeamba Shire was abolished on 1 January 1981 and, along with Mitchell Shire (New South Wales), Mitchell Shire, its area was absorbed into the City of Wagga Wagga per the ''

Local Government Areas Amalgamation Act 1980 The Local Government Areas Amalgamation Act 1980 (NSW) was an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales, which amended the ''Local Government Act 1919'', with the purpose of amalgamating a series of local government areas in New South Wales. The ...

''. Schedule 1.

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