Cooke Plains, South Australia

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Cooke Plains

| state = sa

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| pop =

| established =

| postcode = 5261

| elevation = 6

|footnotes=Elevation{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser Report |title=Placename Details: Cooke Plains Railway Station |access-date=15 June 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia |date=21 April 2008 |id=SA0015303 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archivedate=12 October 2016 |df=dmy-all }}

| dist1 = 18

| dir1 = SE

| location1 = Tailem Bend

| lga = Coorong District Council

| stategov = Hammond

| fedgov = Barker

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| coordinates={{coord|35.378|S|139.561|E|region:AU-SA_type:city|display=inline,title}}

| near-n = Elwomple

| near-ne = Moorlands

| near-e =

| near-se = Coomandook

| near-s = Malinong

| near-sw = Ashville

| near-w = Wellington East

| near-nw = Tailem Bend

}}

Cooke Plains is a settlement in South Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/2905.0Appendix82006?opendocument&tabname=Notes&prodno=2905.0&issue=2006&num=&view=|title=2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |accessdate=8 December 2009}} It is adjacent to the Dukes Highway on the Adelaide–Melbourne railway about halfway between Tailem Bend and Coomandook, however trains no longer stop there. The town has several businesses and a Soldier's Memorial Hall (emblazoned with the possessive "Cooke's Plains" in the stonework).{{cite web |url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/ww1/display/50623-cooke-plains-memorial-hall |title=Cooke Plains Memorial Hall |publisher=Monument Australia |accessdate=15 June 2017}}

Cooke Plains township was originally a private subdivision, named after the pastoralists James and Archie Cooke.{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser Report |title=Placename Details: Cooke Plains |access-date=15 June 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia |date=31 March 2010 |id=SA0015297 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archivedate=12 October 2016 |df=dmy-all }}

Cooke Plains boundaries now also include the former government town of Bedford which was surveyed in August 1871 and declared ceased to exist on 28 April 1960.{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser Report |title=Placename Details: Bedford |access-date=15 June 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia |date=12 May 2011 |id=SA0005478 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archivedate=12 October 2016 |df=dmy-all }}