Kintore is an abandoned town in

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located north-west of

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along the Coolgardie North Road in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.

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was discovered in the area in December 1894 by prospectors Leith and Barrett. The first mine was named after

Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 11th Lord Falconer of Halkerton, 9th Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall, Chief of Clan Keith, (12 August 1852 – 3 March 1930), was a British politician and colonial govern ...

, the retiring

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who was visiting Western Australia at the time. Following a rapid growth in population the local progress committee petitioned for the town to be declared and the town was gazetted in 1897. By 1898 the population of the town was 240 (200 males and 40 females).

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{{authority control Goldfields–Esperance Ghost towns in Western Australia