Willalooka is a small service town and locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. it is located on the Riddoch Highway between Keith and Padthaway. Christmas Rocks Conservation Park is north of the town adjacent to the highway.
| Willalooka South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Willalooka | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°23′38″S 140°20′56″E / 36.393906°S 140.349001°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 143 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 16 March 2000[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5267 | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Tatiara District Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Limestone Coast[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Buckingham[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | MacKillop[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker[5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Services in the town include the Country Fire Service,[7] a community hall, tavern, fuel and general store. The dominant industry in the area is farming, especially sheep.
Near Willalooka is the Darwent Waterhole, called by the local Aborigines kongal, meaning 'water mallee'.[8]
Joseph Darwent, an American steamship owner who took up several pastoral properties near Willalooka in the 1870s.[8] Not to be confused with Joseph Darwent (c. 1824 – 20 October 1872), an English accountant, secretary of the Adelaide City and Port Railway Company, then partner in Darwent & Dalwood who contracted for the northernmost section of the Overland Telegraph Line. Nor his nephew, Joseph Darwent, jun. (1847 – 10 August 1926), from Sheffield, who had a property near Coonawarra and lived in Penola, where he was a member of the District Council for 35 years and Chairman for 25.
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Willalooka had a population of 143 people.[2]
Willalooka is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council.[5][1][4]
Hundred of Willalooka
edit| Hundred of Willalooka South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 136 (SAL 2021)[9] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | March 3, 1921 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 147 square miles (380 km2)[10] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Tatiara District Council | ||||||||||||||
| County | County of Buckingham | ||||||||||||||
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The bounded locality of Willalooka corresponds precisely in land area to the cadastral Hundred of Willalooka in the County of Buckingham.[11] The hundred was named in 1921 after the earlier pastoral property in the area. Its surveyed area is a rectangle of 147 square miles (380 km2).[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Search results for 'Willalooka, LOCB' with the following data sets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian government. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Willalooka". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ^ Lawson, Robert (16 March 2000). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (in the District Council of Tatiara)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1434. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ a b "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KEITH (MUNKORA) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ^ "SA Country Fire Service Station Willalooka". South Australian Country Fire Service Promotions Unit. 3 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ a b South Australian Names.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Willalooka (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Placename Details: Hundred of Willalooka". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0025361. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Placename Details: Willalooka". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 5 December 2007. SA0044796. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
