Stewart Range, South Australia Explained

Type:suburb
Stewart Range
State:SA
Coordinates:-36.9611°N 140.5954°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:67
Established:29 April 1886 (town)
3 December 1998 (locality)
Established Footnotes:[2]
Postcode:5271 [3]
Elevation:45
Elevation Footnotes:(railway station) [4]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Timezone-Dst:ACST
Utc-Dst:+10:30
Dist1:289
Dir1:south-east
Location1:Adelaide
Dist2:12
Dir2:west
Lga:Naracoorte Lucindale Council
County:Robe
Region:Limestone Coast[5]
Stategov:MacKillop[6]
Fedgov:Barker[7]
Maxtemp:21.6
Maxtemp Footnotes:[8]
Mintemp:8.1
Rainfall:484.0
Near-N:Lochaber
Near-Ne:Lochaber
Near-E:Naracoorte
Near-Se:Moyhall
Near-S:Spence
Moyhall
Near-Sw:Lucindale
Near-Nw:Lucindale
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining localities

Stewart Range (formerly Stewarts and Tryon) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat of Naracoorte.[1] [3]

Stewart Range came in existence as a government town which was proclaimed with the name Tryon on 29 April 1886. It was renamed as Stewarts in 1940. Boundaries for the locality within the former District Council of Lucindale were created in 1998 which includes “the Government Town of Stewarts“ and was given the “long established name” which was derived from a range of hills known as Stewart Range. The portion within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council was added on 12 April 2001. A school named as "Stewart's Range" opened in 1885 and closed in 1945 after a name change in 1941.[9] [1] [10] [11] The western two-thirds of the locality is roughly the northern half of the Hundred of Spence. The eastern portion is part of the Hundred of Naracoorte.

The Stewarts railway station opened on the narrow gauge Kingston-Naracoorte railway line in 1876. The railway was converted to broad gauge in 1957 and closed in 1987. It was dismantled in 1991.

The principal land use in the locality is primary production.[12]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Stewart Range had a population of 67 people.

Stewart Range is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council.[7] [6] [1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search results for ‘Stewart Range, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Counties', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions’, 'Gazetteer', 'Railways' and 'Roads' . Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. 1 July 2018.
  2. Web site: GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (in the District Council of Lucindale) . The South Australian Government Gazette . 3 December 1998 . 1711 . 4 December 2018 . Government of South Australia.
  3. Web site: Postcode for Stewart Range, South Australia . 12 March 2017.
  4. Web site: Search results for ‘Stewart Range, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Gazetteer' and 'Railways' . Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. 2 July 2018.
  5. Web site: Limestone Coast SA Government region. The Government of South Australia. 10 October 2014.
  6. Web site: District of MacKillop Background Profile . Electoral Commission SA . 29 March 2016.
  7. Web site: Federal electoral division of Barker . Australian Electoral Commission. 28 March 2016.
  8. Web site: Summary (climate) Summary statistics NARACOORTE AERODROME (nearest weather station). Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 12 March 2017.
  9. News: NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED . . South Australia . 26 July 1940 . 5 September 2016 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
  10. Web site: Place Names of South Australia - S . State Library of South Australia . The Manning Index of South Australian History . 12 March 2017.
  11. Web site: GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign a Boundary to a Place (to areas within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council) . South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian government. 24 February 2018. 1587. 12 April 2001.
  12. Web site: Search results for ‘Stewart Range, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Gazetteer' and 'Land Development Plan Zone Categories' . Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. 2 July 2018.

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