Eurelia
{{other uses|Eurelia (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = town
| name = Eurelia
| state = sa
| image = Hundred of Eurelia, 1889 (22515430667).jpg
| caption = Hundred of Eurelia, 1889, which shows the proposed extent of the government town in the bottom right hand corner
| coordinates = {{coord|32.55436|S|138.561329|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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| established = 12 September 1878 (town)
16 December 1999 (locality)
| established_footnotes = {{cite web|last1=Morgan|first1=William|title=untitled proclamation (the Town of Eurelia)|url=http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1878/42/729.pdf|website=The South Australian Government Gazettee|publisher=South Australian government|access-date=12 February 2018|page =729|date=12 September 1878}}{{Citation | title = GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places | journal = The South Australian Government Gazette | page = 3429 | date=16 December 1999 | url =http://governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/public/documents/gazette/1999/December/1999_183.pdf |access-date=27 December 2017}}
| elevation = 525
| elevation_footnotes = (railway station){{cite web|title=Search results for 'Eurelia Railway Station' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/|website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=Government of South Australia|access-date=13 February 2018}}
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| timezone = ACST
| utc = +9:30
| timezone-dst = ACDT
| utc-dst = +10:30
| dist1 = 264
| dir1 = N
| location1 = Adelaide
| dist2 = 20
| dir2 = N
| location2 = Orroroo
| lga = District Council of Orroroo Carrieton
| region = Yorke and Mid North
| county = Dalhousie
| stategov = Stuart{{cite web |title= Electoral district of Stuart |url= https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/publications/electoral-district-of-stuart-pdf/download |publisher= Electoral Commission SA |access-date= 12 February 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
| fedgov = Grey{{cite web|title=Federal electoral division of Grey |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/sa/files/2011/2011-aec-a4-map-sa-grey.pdf |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=12 February 2018}}
| maxtemp = 21.9
| mintemp = 7.3
| rainfall = 366.2
| near-n = Moockra
Carrieton
Johnburgh
| near-ne = Johnburgh
| near-e = Johnburgh
| near-se = Johnburgh
| near-s = Walloway
| near-sw = Coomooroo
| near-nw = Moockra
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| footnotes = Locations
Adjoining localities
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Eurelia is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east side of the Flinders Ranges about {{convert|264|km}} north of the state capital of Adelaide and about {{convert|20|km}} from the municipal seat of Orroroo.
The town was surveyed in July 1878 and was gazetted as a government town on 12 September 1878 with its name being derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Eurelia. The locality's boundaries were created on 16 December 1999 for the “long established name” and includes the site of the Government Town of Eurelia.
Eurelia's name comes from the local Jadliaura language and translates to "place of the ear". It is thought that local Dreamtime stories associated with the Ranges locates Eurelia as an "ear" of a prostrate man.Manning, G; 1990 Manning's Place Names of South Australia {{Listed Invalid ISBN|05437687505}} The pronunciation of the town's name has given rise to some long-standing jokes. One jokeTom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, {{ISBN|1-86254-475-1}}, page 101, relating a joke told to him by Alan Brissenden has two railway porters at each end of the platform and as each train pulls in, one would call out "You're a liar! You're a liar", and the other would reply "You really are! You really are!". (I.e. the town's name sounds like either "you're a liar" or "you really are", depending on which syllable the stress falls). The "correct" pronunciation is "you really are"
The District Council of Carrieton, based in adjacent Carrieton, was known as the District Council of Eurelia for the first six years of its existence, from 1888 to 1894.{{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 | access-date=30 October 2015 | author=Marsden, Susan | pages=11 | archive-date=17 March 2016 | 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 | url-status=dead }}
Land use within the locality is ’primary production’ and is concerned with “agricultural production and the grazing of stock on relatively large holdings.”{{cite web |title=Development Plan – Orroroo Carrieton Council, Consolidated – 22 November 2012 |url=http://www.orroroo.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Orroroo_Carrieton_Council_Development_Plan.pdf |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=27 December 2017 |pages=105 and 127 |archive-date=11 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311215510/http://orroroo.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Orroroo_Carrieton_Council_Development_Plan.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Eurelia is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the local government area of the District Council of Orroroo Carrieton.
Railways
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Eurelia is located on route of the former Peterborough–Quorn railway line, built in 1881, and ceased regular use by the 1980s. It then became the northern terminus of operations of the Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society running trains from Peterborough between 1981 and 2002.{{Cite web |title=Peterborough to Quorm |url=https://www.stationspast.net/south-australia/peterborough-to-quorn/ |access-date=16 September 2024}}
Dams
{{more citations needed section|date=February 2018}}Eurelia had two dams. The first built when the railway was constructed by C & E Miller. The original dam held {{convert|20000000|impgal|ml}}. This dam was later supplemented by a new dam of the same capacity which was built to the north of the original dam, with the intent that the old dam would act as a settling pond. Construction started in 1948 and was completed in 1952. The dam remained empty until 1958 when, after heavy rains in the region, both dams filled.
Water from the dams was shipped across the South Australian Railway system during times of drought.Doncaster, N (as Editor) – Eurelia Dams – The Partyline No67 Autumn 1997; Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society (the article notes the material has been drawn from; Shepard, M; Ups and Downs of Eurelia 1876 to 1976
References
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{{Towns and localities in District Council of Orroroo Carrieton}}
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