Cooltong, South Australia Explained

Type:	town
Cooltong
State:	sa
Coordinates:	-34.0856°N 140.675°W
Coord Ref:	^[1]
Established:	1 March 1951 (town) 16 March 2000 (locality)
Established Footnotes:	^[2]
Postcode:	5341
Lga:	Renmark Paringa Council
County:	Hamley
Region:	Murray and Mallee
Stategov:	Chaffey^[3]
Fedgov:	Barker^[4]
Near-N:	Calperum Station
Near-E:	Chaffey
Near-Se:	Renmark North
Near-S:	Renmark West
Near-Sw:	Monash
Near-W:	Calperum Station

Cooltong is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia.

The name Cooltong is derived from a local Aboriginal name meaning "lizard place",^[5] and had been in use in the area for many decades before the town was established.^[6] The first instance of the name Cooltong in the South Australian newspapers was in 1898, reporting on an unusual weather event that occurred near Renmark, beginning in the Cooltong Hills.^[7] The town of Cooltong was surveyed in 1949.^[8] Much of the land was granted as soldier settlement blocks after World War II, and is irrigated and planted with grapevines, citrus or other fruit trees.

The Cooltong Conservation Park is southwest of the town.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search results for 'Cooltong, LOCB' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'. Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. 11 February 2019.
2. Web site: McEwin . A. Lyell . TOWN OF COOLTONG CONSTITUTED . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 11 February 2019 . 483 . 1 March 1951.
3. Web site: Electoral district of Chaffey . Electoral Commission SA. 27 March 2018.
4. Web site: Electoral division of Barker . Australian Electoral Commission. 27 March 2018.
5. Web site: Placename Details: Cooltong (government town) . SA0042841 . 12 May 2011 . 30 September 2015 . Property Location Browser . Land Services, Department of Planning, transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 .
6. Web site: Placename Details: Cooltong Paddock . SA0015439 . 26 May 2008 . 30 September 2015 . Property Location Browser . Land Services, Department of Planning, transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 .
7. News: PHENOMENAL HAILSTORM AND CYCLONE. . . 7 . 36 . South Australia . 9 September 1898 . 12 May 2022 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
8. Web site: Placename Details: Cooltong (Locality Bounded) . SA0015433 . 4 March 2010 . 26 August 2015 . Property Location Browser . Land Services, Department of Planning, transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 .