Everard Central, South Australia

Everard Central (33°58′S 138°19′E; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North.^[3][4] The locality is situated in approximately the southern two thirds of the cadastral Hundred of Everard.^[3][5]

Everard Central South Australia
Everard Central
Coordinates	33°57′55″S 138°18′59″E
Population	33 (SAL 2016)[1][2]
Postcode(s)	5461
Location	108 km (67 mi) N of Adelaide
LGA(s)	Wakefield Regional Council
Region	Mid North
State electorate(s)	Frome
Federal division(s)	Grey
Localities around Everard Central: Snowtown[3] Condowie[3] Hart, Blyth[3] Bumbunga[3] Everard Central Bowillia[3] Nantawarra[3] Mount Templeton, Whitwarta[3] Stow[3]

Hundred of Everard

Hundred of Everard, 1894

Everard South Australia
Population	33 (SAL 2016)[6][7]
Established	24 May 1867
Area	215 km2 (83.0 sq mi)
County	Stanley
Lands administrative divisions around Everard: Barunga Boucaut Hart Cameron Everard Blyth Goyder Stow Hall

The Hundred of Everard is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains containing the Everard Central locality.^[5] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley.^[8] It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after William Everard (1819–1889), a South Australian parliamentarian.^[5] The southern third of the locality of Condowie is also situated inside the bounds of the Hundred of Everard.

Local government

In 1888 the Hundred of Everard was annexed to the District Council of Blyth as part of the District Councils Act 1887.^[9] Not long after, on 26 September 1889, the hundred was severed from Blyth council and annexed instead to the District Council of Snowtown^[10] as the Everard ward.

In 1912, at the instigation of resident landowners, a southern portion of the hundred south of Everard Road and including the Everard Central township, was severed from Snowtown council and added to the District Council of Balaklava as part of its Stow ward.^{[citation needed]} From 1987, following the merging of Snowtown and Blyth councils, the larger north part of the hundred retained is ward status with 2 council representatives in the Blyth-Snowtown council. From 1997, following the Blyth-Snowtown amalgamation with the District Council of Wakefield Plains, the entire hundred became part of the much larger North ward of the Wakefield Regional Council.

Geology

Everard Central contains a series of ephemeral salt lake basins.^[11] The lunette formations at the basin edges contain deposits of gypsum. Gypsum for agricultural use is mined at the site, with 35,000 tonnes being obtained by G.J. Mills and McArdle in 2002.^[12]

See also

• List of cities and towns in South Australia
• Lands administrative divisions of South Australia

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Everard Central (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016. 
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Everard Central (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. "Search result for 'Everard Central, LOCB' (ID SA0023115)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
4. "Everard Central, South Australia". Retrieved 25 January 2016.
5. "Search result for 'Hundred of Everard' (ID SA0023127)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
6. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Everard Central (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016. 
7. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Everard Central (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
8. South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
9. "The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419". Flinders University. p. 90. Retrieved 27 March 2015. DISTRICT OF SNOWTOWN.-Comprising the Hundreds of Barunga and Boucaut.
10. "Proclamations—Snowtown, District—Boundaries enlarged" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. 1889 (44 ed.). Government of South Australia: 1351. 26 September 1889. Retrieved 26 June 2017. [...] the whole of the hundred of Everard heretofore forming the North Everard ward and the South Everard ward of the district of Blyth shall be severed from the said district of Blyth and annexed to the district of Snowtown [...]
11. "Geological Survey of South Australia – Burra – S.A. Geological Atlas Series Sheet SI 54-05" (PDF). Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy, Commonwealth of Australia. 22 May 2012. Holocene/Pleistocene Undifferentiated Pleistocene calcrete/gypcrete; Holocene/Quaternary gypsiferous dunes/lunettes
12. "Minerals – Gypsum". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2016. Everard: Variable tonnages (35 000 t in 2002) of agricultural gypsum are mined by G.J. Mills and McArdle Pty Ltd from lunette deposits near Everard Central, 15 km east of Lochiel in the State's Mid North.

External links

• Wakefield Regional Council Archived 9 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine