Corporate Town of Davenport

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| pop = 1,128

| pop_year = 1923

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| established = 1887

| abolished = 1932

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The Corporate Town of Davenport was a local government area in South Australia that existed from 1887 to 1932 on land now located within the suburb of Port Augusta.

A proposal to create a new local government area consisting of suburbs "annexed to the existing Corporation of Port Augusta" was discussed by residents interested in "the subject of local self-government" as recently as February 1887. On 1 March 1887, a meeting at the Pastoral Hotel agreed boundaries for a new corporation to be called Davenport which was to consist of three wards named First, Second and Third and signed a petition arguing for the creation of the new corporation.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160757879 |title=A NEW CORPORATION AT PORT AUGUSTA. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=SA |date=5 March 1887 |accessdate=12 November 2015 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}} The corporation was gazetted by the Government of South Australia on 25 August 1887.{{cite web |last1=Ramsay |first1=J.G. |title=Corporation of Davenport. |url=http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1887/37.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=28 March 2019 |pages=441–442 |date=25 August 1887}}

It was separate from the adjacent District Council of Davenport, which was renamed Woolundunga in 1893 to avoid confusion between the two.{{cite web | url=https://www.lga.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LGA-89938_-_2011_18_-_FINAL_History_of_SA_Councils.pdf | title=A History of South Australian Councils to 1936 | publisher=Local Government Association of South Australia | date=2012 | accessdate=30 October 2015 | author=Marsden, Susan | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317082016/https://www.lga.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LGA-89938_-_2011_18_-_FINAL_History_of_SA_Councils.pdf | archive-date=17 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197597403 |title=The Government Policy. |newspaper=The Port Augusta Dispatch, Newcastle and Flinders Chronicle |location=SA |date=30 June 1893 |accessdate=12 November 2015 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In 1923, it had a reported population of 1,128, residing in 239 dwellings, with the municipality having a capital value of £126,600. As recently as 1931, it operated from offices located in Stirling Road which is now located in the suburb of Port Augusta.{{cite web |last1=Abernethy |first1=Lloyd W. |title=Town of Davenport |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1931/41/670.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=29 March 2019 |page=670 |date=1 October 1931}}{{cite web|title=Search results for 'Stirling Street, Port Augusta' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas' and 'Gazetteer'|url= http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=137.77222&y=-32.49413&z=14&uids=19,115,8,11,105&pinx=137.767812&piny=-32.491818&pinTitle=Location&pinText=1+Stirling+Road,+Port+Augusta,+South+Australia,+5700 |website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=South Australian Government|accessdate=29 March 2019}}

On 28 April 1932 it merged into the existing Corporate Town of Port Augusta, along with the Corporate Town of Port Augusta West and part of the District Council of Woolundunga.{{cite web |last1=Whitford |first1=S.R. |title=LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS (RE-ARRANGEMENT) ACTS, 1929 AND 1931.—AREAS UNITED |url=http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1932/18/745.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=29 March 2019 |page=745 |date=28 April 1932 |quote=" Unite the areas comprising the Municipalities of Port Augusta, Port Augusta West, and Davenport, and that portion of the District Council District of Woolundunga defined in the First Schedule"}}