Coles is a locality in the Australian state of

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located in the state's south-east within the

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region about south east of the state capital of

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and about south-west of the municipal seat of Naracoorte. Boundaries for the locality were created and was given the name of Coles on 3 December 1998. The name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Coles in which the locality is located. The hundred itself was named after Jenkin Coles who was a member of the

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from 1875 to 1911. Coles is located within the federal

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, the state

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and the local government area of the

Naracoorte Lucindale Council The Naracoorte Lucindale Council is a local government area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Limestone Coast region in the south-east of the state adjacent to the Victorian border. It was created on 1 December 1998 foll ...

. In January 2022 a bushfire burning within the locality resulted in the death of a CFS volunteer Louise Hincks.

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