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Sherwood is a locality in the Australian state of
South Australia
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located about south-east of the state capital of
Adelaide
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and about north-west of the municipal seat of
Bordertown.
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Boundaries for the locality were created on 16 March 2000 for the “long established name.”]
Sherwood is served by Emu Flat Road which passes through the locality from the Ngarkat Highway in the east where the highway forms the locality’s eastern boundary to Keith in the west where the road terminates in the Keith town centre.[
The principal land use in the locality is primary production. A parcel of land at its eastern boundary has ]protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...
status as the Hardings Springs Conservation Reserve.[
The ]2016 Australian census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th Census in Australia, national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was count ...
which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sherwood had a population of 97 people.[
Sherwood is located within the federal ]division of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian electoral division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member d ...
, the state electoral district of MacKillop
MacKillop is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australia ...
and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council
Tatiara District Council is a local government area located in south-eastern South Australia. The name Tatiara is said to mean "the good country", a phrase which dates back to the area's first inhabitants, the Bodaruwitj people. It is one of th ...
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Towns in South Australia
Limestone Coast