Tilley Swamp, South Australia

Tilley Swamp is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about 199 kilometres (124 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of the municipal seat of Kingston SE.^[1][3] The 2016 Australian census, which was conducted in August 2016, reports that the area had a population of 27 people.^[2]

Tilley Swamp South Australia
Tilley Swamp
Coordinates	36°20′37″S 139°49′22″E[1]
Population	27 (2016 census)[2]
Established	3 December 1998[1]
Postcode(s)	5267[3]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	199 km (124 mi) south-east of Adelaide 55 km (34 mi) north of Kingston SE
LGA(s)	Kingston District Council
Region	Limestone Coast[1]
County	Cardwell[1]
State electorate(s)	MacKillop[4]
Federal division(s)	Barker[5]
Mean max temp[6] Mean min temp[6] Annual rainfall[6] 22.3 °C 72 °F 8.0 °C 46 °F 408.1 mm 16.1 in
Suburbs around Tilley Swamp: Coorong Salt Creek Deepwater Bunbury Laffer Coorong Tilley Swamp Petherick Coorong Taratap Keilira Keilira
Footnotes	Locations[1][3] Adjoining localities[1]

Tilley Swamp is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Kingston District Council.^[5][4][1]

History

Tilley Swamp's name and boundaries were assigned on 3 December 1998. Its name is derived from the swamp of the same name, which itself is derived either from “Thomas Tilley, Manager of Glencoe Run” or William Tilley, an early pastoral leaseholder.^[1][7][8][9]

A brief history of Tilley Swamp was compiled by the South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning:^[7]

... It lies 48 km north of Kingston, SE and the Aborigines knew the district as kopanopintar - kopan - ‘one’ and pintar - ‘stone axe’. On 1 July 1851, William Tilley took up pastoral lease no. 199 (previously an occupation licence issued to him on 22 April 1847 and known as ‘Miserable Creek’) calling it ‘Tilley’s Swamp; he sold out to James Thompson in February 1854. A sketch of pastoral lease no. 1181 showing the location of the home station, together with numerous waterholes is reproduced opposite. H.C. Talbot talks of ‘Tilley’s Accommodation House’ conducted by William Tilley and that it was ‘one of the stages on the Overland Road to the Victorian diggings…’ and is shown as such on early pastoral lease maps. Tilley Swamp School opened in 1958 and closed in 1965. Rodney Cockburn attributes its nomenclature to Thomas Tilley ‘who succeeded John McIntyre as manager for the Leake brothers at Glencoe. ‘Later he joined George Ormerod in pastoral partnership which included a lease of the Avenue Range run and other properties…

Land use

The principal land use in the locality is "primary production",^[10] although some land has been granted protected area status under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 as the Gum Lagoon Conservation Park in the locality's north-east corner and as the Tilley Swamp Conservation Park in the locality's south-west.^[1]

References

1. "Search result for 'Tilley Swamp, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Local Government areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Retrieved 3 January 2019.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tilley Swamp". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
3. "Postcode for Tilley Swamp, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
4. "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
5. "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
6. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Summary statistics KEITH (MUNKORA) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
7. Manning, Geoffrey. "South Australian Names - T" (PDF). Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
8. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (in the District Council of Lacepede)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 3 December 1998. p. 1711. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
9. "Search result for 'Tilley Swamp, SWP' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Gazetteer' and 'NPW and Conservation Properties'". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
10. "Development Plan, Kingston District Council Consolidated – 13 December 2012" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 144–147 and 199–204. Retrieved 21 December 2017.