County of Hopetoun

Hopetoun
South Australia
Hopetoun; South Australia
	Approach to Fowlers Bay in the Hundred of Caldwell
	Hopetoun
Coordinates	31°33′11″S 131°58′52″E / 31.553°S 131.981°E
Established	21 January 1892
Area	6,200 km2 (2,400 sq mi)
LGA(s)	District Council of Ceduna
	Lands administrative divisions around Hopetoun:

The County of Hopetoun is one of the 49 counties of South Australia on the state's west coast.^[2] It was proclaimed in 1892 by Governor Algernon Keith-Falconer and named for John Hope then the Governor of Victoria.^[2]

Hundreds

The County of Hopetoun contains the following 9 hundreds, covering approximately the south-eastern half of its total area:

Inland from northwest to southeast: Bice, Lucy, Miller, Trunch, and May (Yalata, Coorabie)
On the south coastline from west to east: Russell, Wookata, Sturdee, and Caldwell (Coorabie, Fowlers Bay)

^ Kingston, C.C. (21 January 1892). "Untitled proclamation re new county and new hundreds" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 120–121. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Placename Details: County of Hopetoun". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 14 January 2009. SA0031106. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2019.

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