Wild Horse Plains is a locality in
South Australia
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on the eastern coastline of
Gulf St Vincent
Gulf St Vincent, sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf, St Vincent's Gulf or Gulf of St Vincent, is the eastern of two large inlets of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, the other being the larger Sp ...
about north-northwest of the
Adelaide city centre
Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide l ...
.
Its name is attributed to Thomas Day, who found wild horses grazing within the locality around 1870.
Its boundaries, created in June 1997, include the town of Wild Horse Plains, established in 1881 on
Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Highway (and its southern section as Port Wakefield Road) is an important South Australian highway, connecting Adelaide to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Wester ...
, and the former Government Town of Lorne.
Port Lorne Road marks most of the northern boundary of Wild Horse Plains and is the access road to the former township of Lorne.
Wild Horse Plains lies within the federal
Division of Grey
The Division of Grey is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 ...
, the state
electoral district of Narungga
Narungga is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution of 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 South Australian sta ...
[ and the local government area of the ]Adelaide Plains Council
The Adelaide Plains Council (formerly the District Council of Mallala) is a local government area in South Australia. It consists of a largely rural region along the Gulf St Vincent
Gulf St Vincent, sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf ...
.[
The post office opened in 1878, continued as a telephone exchange and closed in 1979]
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Wild Horse Plains formally had a school for all ages known as Wild Horse Plains School.
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.
:For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adela ...
References
Towns in South Australia
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