County of Hore-Ruthven
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{{Infobox Australian place
| type = cadastral
| name = Hore-Ruthven
| state = sa
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| coordinates = {{coord|32.49|S|136.57|E|display=inline,title}}
| est =1933{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92356617 |title=News Of The Week At Home |newspaper=The Chronicle |volume=LXXVI |issue=40,125 |location=Adelaide |date=4 January 1934 |accessdate=11 December 2016 |page=40 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite web|last1=Leadbeater|first1=Maureen |title=Counties & Hundreds of South Australia|url=http://www.familyhistorysa.info/sahistory/hundreds.html |publisher=FamilyHistorySA |pages=| date=2014 |accessdate=20 November 2016}}
| area = {{convert| 2718|mi2|km2|order=flip}}
| area_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Search result for "County of Hore-Ruthven (CNTY)" (Record no SA0031122) with the following layers selected - “Local Government Areas”, “Counties”, “Road labels” and “Government Regions” |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=22 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archivedate=12 October 2016 |df=dmy-all }}
| lga = Pastoral Unincorporated Area
| region = Far North{{cite web|title= Far North SA Government region|url=https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/6905/Far_North_SA_Government_region.pdf|publisher=The Government of South Australia|accessdate=11 December 2016}}
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| near-e = Manchester
| near-se = York
| near-sw = Le Hunte
| near-w = Bosanquet
| near-nw =
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County of Hore-Ruthven is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land both in the north of the Eyre Peninsula and to the peninsula's north. It was proclaimed in 1933 and was named after Alexander Hore-Ruthven, the Governor of South Australia from 1928 to 1934.
Description
The county covers land extending from the southern end of Lake Gairdner in the north-west to the northern end of Lake Gilles in the south-east. Its southern end is located within the Eyre Peninsula. It is bounded to the west by the County of Bosanquet, to the south by the Counties of Buxton and York, and to the east by the County of Manchester.{{cite web|title=Search result for "Eyre Peninsula (Peninsula)" (Record no SA0023359)|url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/#|publisher=Government of South Australia|date=2011|accessdate=5 October 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/|archivedate=12 October 2016|df=dmy-all}}
The county contains no formal settlements, but it does include, in part, the following localities of which the majority are based on pastoral leases: Bungeroo, Buckleboo, Carriewerloo, Cooyerdoo, Corunna Station, Gilles Downs, Katunga Station, Kolendo, Lake Gairdner, Lake Gilles, Mount Ive, Nonning, Siam, Uno, Wartaka, Yeltana and Yudnapinna.{{cite journal|url=http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/documentstore/2013/April/2013_025.pdfpdf|title=Geographical Names Act 1991, Notice to Create Boundaries of Places and Alter Boundaries of Places|work=South Australian Government Gazette|page=1170|publisher=Government of South Australia|date=26 April 2013|accessdate=11 December 2016}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite map |url= https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/7018/Rack_Plan_951_Map.pdf |title= Proposed Locality Boundaries for Pastoral Areas |id= Rack Plan 951 |publisher= Government of South Australia |date= 31 October 2012 |accessdate= 5 September 2015 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923004500/http://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/7018/Rack_Plan_951_Map.pdf |archivedate= 23 September 2015 |url-status= dead }}
The county is served by the following roads – the Eyre Highway passes through the south-east corner of the county on its way from Iron Knob in the east to Kimba in the west, and the Nonning Road passes through the county in a west–east direction on its way from Iron Knob to Kingoonya in the north.{{cite web |url=https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/19028/OutbackRoadsSheet3.pdf |title=Outback Road Names Sheet 3 |id=Rack Plan 768 |date=21 January 2014 |accessdate=11 December 2016 |publisher=Government of South Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916015802/https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/19028/OutbackRoadsSheet3.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/22236/Outback-Roads-Sheet4.pdf |title=Outback Road Names Sheet 4 |id=Rack Plan 768 |date=21 January 2014 |accessdate=11 December 2016 |publisher=Government of South Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305063323/https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/22236/Outback-Roads-Sheet4.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}
No hundreds have ever been proclaimed within the county.
See also
References
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