Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of

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located in the southern

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about west of the state capital of

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and about south of the municipal seat of Maitland.

History

Yorketown began as a private sub-division in section 85 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Melville in 1872. Its name was declared by the

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as an official place name on 16 November 1995. Boundaries were created for the locality which was given the "long established name" of Yorketown on 27 May 1999. The area associated with Yorketown is known as ''Garrdinya'' by the

Narungga The Narungga people, also spelt Narangga, are a group of Aboriginal Australians whose traditional lands are located throughout Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Their traditional language, one of the Yura-Thura grouping, is Narungga. Countr ...

, the aboriginal people of the Yorke Peninsula.

Government

It is located in the local government area of

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, the state

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and the federal

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Education

Yorketown Area School accommodates students from Reception to Year 12. First established in 1878 at Weaners Flat (where our town playground is now located), Yorketown Area School has been operating from its current site since 1976. it was merged with Edithburgh State School in 2017.

Media

''The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Pioneer'' was first published in Yorketown on 21 January 1898, and sold at a discounted price due to its late appearance. It was originally owned and established by Ben L. Wilkinson, and later helped by his brother Richard. In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, '' The Pioneer'', later becoming part of the ''

Yorke Peninsula Country Times ''Yorke Peninsula Country Times'' is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed by the merging of ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'' and ''South Australian Farmer,'' representing numerous f ...

'' from June 1970. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, ''The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Clarion'' (1 February – 31 May 1902), simplified to the ''Clarion'' (7 June 1902 – 21 May 1931), also existed in the town too.

References

External links

Yorke Peninsula websiteYorke Peninsula: YorketownHarvest Corner Website
Yorke Peninsula Visitor Information Centre at Minlaton {{authority control Towns in South Australia Yorke Peninsula