Frances, South Australia

Frances is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located about 291 kilometres (181 mi) south-east of the state capital, Adelaide and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-east of the municipal seat of Naracoorte in the state's Limestone Coast region and adjoining the border with the State of Victoria.^[1][4][5]

Frances South Australia
Frances General Store, 2016
Frances
Coordinates	36°42′47″S 140°57′18″E[1]
Population	92 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	1871 (town) 12 April 2001 (locality)[1][3]
Postcode(s)	5262[4]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	291 km (181 mi) SE of Adelaide 32 km (20 mi) NE of Naracoorte
LGA(s)	Naracoorte Lucindale Council[1]
Region	Limestone Coast[5]
County	MacDonnell[1]
State electorate(s)	MacKillop[6]
Federal division(s)	Barker[7]
Localities around Frances: Western Flat Bangham Neuarpurr The Gap Frances Neuarpurr The Gap Binnum Neuarpurr
Footnotes	Locations[4] Adjoining localities[1][8]

Frances began as a government town first surveyed in July 1871 and then resurveyed in January. Its name is reported as being derived from the name of the wife of "Mr Henry Jones of Binnum Station." Boundaries of the locality were created in April 2001.^[1]

For much of its history, Frances was a railway town on the Mount Gambier railway line, which runs from Wolseley in the north to Mount Gambier in the south. A State Road, Frances Road, runs from Bordertown through Frances to Hynam.^[9] Despite the closure of the railway on 12 April 1995, Frances continues to be a receiving point for grain, with several silos.^[10] It set a record for the most grain received at Frances in the season on 10 January 2017, by which time it had received over 43,000 tonnes (42,000 long tons; 47,000 short tons).^[11] It also set a new record for the most grain received in a single day at the site.^[12]

Every February from 2000 to 2019, Frances hosted the Frances Folk Gathering, a weekend-long folk music festival, with the whole town given over to music and visitors.^[13][14]

Frances is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council.^[1][6][7]

References

Notes

Citations

1. "Search result(s) for Frances (LOCB) (Record No. SA0024846) with the following layers being selected – "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Government Towns", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Frances (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign a Boundary to a Place (to areas within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council)" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian government. 12 April 2001. p. 1587. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
4. "Postcode for Frances, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
5. "Limestone Coast SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
6. "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
7. "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
8. "Search result for "Neuarpurr (Locality Bounded)" (Vicmap ID n205407526)". Vicnames – The Register of Geographic Names. Government of Victoria. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
9. "Naracoorte Lucindale Road Map" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (SA). Retrieved 4 March 2017.
10. "Storage Allocation". ezigrain. Viterra. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
11. Moss, Elle (28 January 2017). "Records broken at grain sites". Stock Journal. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
12. "Post Harvest Report 2017" (PDF). Glencore Agriculture. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
13. Terry Hewton (6 December 2011). "Letter from Australia: Songs of home". The Guardian Weekly.
14. "The History and Spirit of the Frances Folk Gathering". FrancesFolkGathering.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

External links

• Frances Folk Gathering website