Type: | town |
Top Springs | |
State: | nt |
Coordinates: | -16.5438°N 131.7977°W |
Coord Ref: | [1] |
Pop: | 3 |
Established: | 2 January 1976 (town) 4 April 2007 (locality) |
Established Footnotes: | [2] |
Postcode: | 0852[3] |
Area: | 2.79 |
Area Footnotes: | [4] |
Timezone: | ACST |
Utc: | +9:30 |
Dist1: | 465 |
Dir1: | S |
Location1: | Darwin |
Lga: | Victoria Daly Region |
Stategov: | Stuart[5] |
Fedgov: | Lingiari[6] |
Maxtemp: | 34.6 |
Maxtemp Footnotes: | [7] |
Mintemp: | 19.6 |
Rainfall: | 647.7 |
Near-N: | Victoria River |
Near-Ne: | Victoria River |
Near-E: | Victoria River |
Near-Se: | Victoria River |
Near-S: | Victoria River |
Near-Sw: | Victoria River |
Near-W: | Victoria River |
Footnotes: | Adjoining localities[8] |
Top Springs is a town and locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin at the junction of the Buchanan and Buntine highways.[4] [1] [3]
Top Springs consists of land around the intersection of the Buchanan and Buntine Highways of an area of about which was surveyed and proclaimed as a town in 1976. The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The locality is named after the town with the name being ultimately derived from springs located on the route of the Murranji Track. Development within the town/locality consists of a roadhouse.[4] [9] [8]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Top Springs had a population of 3 people.
Top Springs is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region.[6] [5] [2]