Hundred of Boucaut explained

Type:cadastral
Boucaut
State:sa
County:Stanley
Region:Mid North
Lga:Wakefield
Est:25 July 1867
Coordinates:-33.72°N 138.33°W
Area:107abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Near-Nw:Redhill
Near-N:Koolunga
Near-Ne:Yackamoorundie
Near-E:Hart
Near-Se:Blyth
Near-S:Everard
Near-Sw:Cameron
Near-W:Barunga

The Hundred of Boucaut is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia.[1] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley.[2] It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after parliamentarian James Boucaut.[1]

The Hundred of Boucaut spans the western half of the town of Brinkworth, most of Condowie, and the eastern halves of Burnsfield and Lake View.

Local government

In 1887 the District Council of Snowtown was established, along with many other new local government bodies in South Australia, by the District Councils Act 1887,[3] incorporating the entirety of the Hundred of Boucaut as well as the neighbouring Hundred of Barunga, in which the town of Snowtown lies. Boucaut became a ward within the Snowtown council and retained its status as a ward in the consolidated District Council of Blyth-Snowtown following the 1987 amalgamation. Following the 1997 amalgamation of Blyth-Snowtown and Wakefield Plains councils the hundred has been a part of the much larger North ward of the Wakefield Regional Council.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search for 'Hundred of Boucaut, HD' . Property Location Browser . SA0008811 . . 23 June 2017 . Derivation of Name: Sir James Penn Boucaut, MP 1861-1878; Other Details: Area 107 square miles. Sir Boucaut was later Chief Justice & 3 times Premier of South Australia. . 7 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .
  2. Book: South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360 . Surveyor General's Office . 1867.
  3. Web site: The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419 . Flinders University . 27 March 2015 . 90 . DISTRICT OF SNOWTOWN.-Comprising the Hundreds of Barunga and Boucaut..