Mundoora, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Mundoora
State:sa
Lga:Barunga West
Lga2:Port Pirie
Lga3:Wakefield
Postcode:5555[1]
Maxtemp:24.2
Mintemp:9.0
Rainfall:364.3
Stategov:Narungga[2]
Fedgov:Grey
Dist1:156
Dir1:north
Location1:Adelaide city centre
Dist2:15
Dir2:east
Location2:Port Broughton
Coordinates:-33.595°N 138.083°W
Near-Nw:Fisherman Bay
Near-N:Clements Gap
Near-Ne:Redhill
Near-E:Redhill
Collinsfield
Hope Gap
Near-Se:Snowtown
Near-S:Wokurna
Snowtown
Near-Sw:Wokurna
Near-W:Port Broughton
Footnotes:Climate[3]
Locations
Coordinates[4]
Adjoining localities

Mundoora is a settlement in South Australia,[5] 16 km inland from Port Broughton, to which it was connected by the horse-drawn Port Broughton tramway around 1876. Its tram, dubbed "The Pie Cart", which was described as a "kind of second-hand coffin drawn by one horse"[6] and still in operation in 1923[7] was later relegated to the Railways Museum[8] and the line dismantled.

Governance

The first local government established in the area was the District Council of Broughton, later called District Council of Redhill. Mundoora was never served by the historic District Council of Mundoora, which was instead based at Port Broughton, to the west. Today the township of Mundoora is in the District Council of Barunga West but the locality is at the meeting point of three local government areas, the Port Pirie Regional Council spanning the north east and Wakefield Regional Council spanning the south east corners of the locality.

Mundoora is in the state electorate of Narungga and the federal electorate of Grey.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Postcode for Mundoora, South Australia . postcodes-australia.com . 10 July 2016.
  2. Narungga . Electoral District Boundaries Commission . 2016 . 1 March 2018.
  3. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics SNOWTOWN (RAYVILLE PARK) (nearest station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 10 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Search result for "Mundoora (Locality Bounded)" (Record no. SA0067679) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas" and " Place names (gazetteer)" . Property Location Browser . Government of South Australia . 10 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dead .
  5. Web site: 2905.0 – Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006 . Australian Bureau of Statistics . 8 December 2009.
  6. News: Farmers and Producers' Political Union . . Adelaide . 17 July 1908 . 11 April 2014 . 8 . National Library of Australia.
  7. News: Ancient and Modern . . Adelaide . 21 July 1923 . 11 April 2014 . 6 . National Library of Australia. This reference has a photo of the "Pie Cart".
  8. News: Port Broughton Pictures. . . Adelaide . 1 February 1951 . 11 April 2014 . 33 . National Library of Australia.