Rudall, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Rudall
State:SA
Coordinates:-33.6904°N 136.271°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Established:4 June 1914 (town)
23 December 1998 (locality)
Established Footnotes:[2] [3]
Postcode:5642
Elevation:97
Elevation Footnotes:railway station[4]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Timezone-Dst:ACST
Utc-Dst:+10:30
Lga:District Council of Cleve
County:Jervois
Region:Eyre Western[5]
Stategov:Flinders[6]
Fedgov:Grey[7]
Maxtemp:22.1
Maxtemp Footnotes:[8]
Mintemp:11.4
Rainfall:401.5
Near-N:Kielpa
Near-Ne:Campoona
Near-E:Cleve
Near-Se:Verran
Near-S:Verran
Near-Sw:Hinks
Near-W:Murlong
Near-Nw:Boonerdo
Footnotes:Adjoining localities

Rudall is a town and locality in South Australia.[1] It is named for the cadastral Hundred of Rudall, which was named after politician Samuel Rudall.[9]

It is a grain and sheep service centre on the Eyre Peninsula. It is on the Eyre Peninsula Railway between Cummins and Kimba and the Birdseye Highway between Cleve and Lock.

Rudall Centre School opened in 1921 and closed in 1946, while the Hundred of Rudall School opened in 1917 and closed in 1949.[10] A postal receiving office opened at Rudall on 3 January 1914, was upgraded to a post office on 1 January 1921, and became a community mail agent on 10 January 1992.[11] It formerly had a Methodist church.[12]

Rudall is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Cleve.[7] [6] [1]

The government town of Taragoro

The town of Taragoro (-33.7596°N 136.2966°W) which was located about south-east of the town of Rudall on the route of the Eyre Peninsula Railway was proclaimed on 30 July 1914 and was declared to "cease to exist" on 4 February 1960. The former town whose site is located within the locality of Rudall is reported to be named after an Aboriginal word for "small black cormorant."[13] [14] [15] [16]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search result for "Rudall (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0059594) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Government Towns", "Place names (gazetteer)", "Road labels" and "Development Plan" . Government of South Australia . Property Location Browser . 30 December 2016.
  2. Web site: Bice . John G. . Town of Rudall . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 25 June 2019 . 1222 . 4 June 1914.
  3. Web site: Kentish . P.M. . GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (within the District Council of Cleve) . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 25 June 2019 . 2009 . 23 December 1998.
  4. Web site: Search results for "Rudall Railway Station" with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australian . 25 June 2019.
  5. Web site: Eyre Western SA Government region. The Government of South Australia. 10 October 2014.
  6. Web site: District of Flinders Background Profile . Electoral Commission SA. 9 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Federal electoral division of Grey . Australian Electoral Commission. 24 July 2015.
  8. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics CLEVE (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 25 June 2019.
  9. Web site: Place Names of South Australia - R . State Library of South Australia . Manning Index of South Australian History . 30 December 2016.
  10. Web site: Place Names of South Australia - R . State Library of South Australia . The Manning Index of South Australian History . 30 December 2016.
  11. Web site: Rudall . Premier Postal . Post Office Reference . 30 December 2016.
  12. News: NEW CHURCH BUILDING DEDICATED AT RUDALL . . XXVII . 1,494 . South Australia . 24 September 1953 . 30 December 2016 . 14 . National Library of Australia.
  13. Web site: Bice . John C. . Town of Taragoro. The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 25 June 2019 . 261 . 30 July 1914.
  14. Web site: McEwIn . A. Lyell . CROWN LANDS ACT, 1929-1957: TOWN OF TARAGORO DECLARED TO CEASE TO EXIST. . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 25 June 2019 . 351 . 4 February 1960.
  15. Web site: Search results for "Taragoro" with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australian . 25 June 2019.
  16. Web site: Place Names of South Australia - T . State Library of South Australia . The Manning Index of South Australian History . 25 June 2019.

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