Mundoora, South Australia

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Mundoora

| state = sa

| image = Railway station(GN00140).jpg

| caption = 'Pie Cart' of the horse drawn railway at Mundoora

| lga = Barunga West

| lga2 = Port Pirie

| lga3 = Wakefield

| postcode = 5555{{cite web|title= Postcode for Mundoora, South Australia |url= http://www.postcodes-australia.com/areas/sa/adelaide/mundoora |publisher= postcodes-australia.com |accessdate=10 July 2016}}

| est =

| pop =

| elevation=

| maxtemp = 24.2

| mintemp = 9.0

| rainfall = 364.3

| stategov = Narungga{{cite map |url=http://edbc.sa.gov.au/redistributions/2016/2016-electoral-district-maps/narungga-map-2016-pdf/download.html |title=Narungga |publisher=Electoral District Boundaries Commission |date=2016 |accessdate=1 March 2018}}

| fedgov = Grey

| dist1 = 156

| dir1 = north

| location1= Adelaide city centre

| dist2 = 15

| dir2 = east

| location2= Port Broughton

| dist3 =

| location3=

| coordinates = {{coord|33.595|S|138.083|E|display=inline,title}}

| near-nw = Fisherman Bay

| near-n = Clements Gap

| near-ne = Redhill

| near-e = Redhill
Collinsfield
Hope Gap

| near-se = Snowtown

| near-s = Wokurna
Snowtown

| near-sw = Wokurna

| near-w = Port Broughton

|footnotes=Climate{{cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics SNOWTOWN (RAYVILLE PARK) (nearest station) |url= http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_021133.shtml|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology|accessdate=10 July 2016}}
Locations
Coordinates{{cite web |title=Search result for "Mundoora (Locality Bounded)" (Record no. SA0067679) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas" and " Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=10 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archive-date=12 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Adjoining localities

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Mundoora 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}} 16 km inland from Port Broughton, to which it was connected by the horse-drawn Port Broughton tramway around 1876. Its tram, dubbed "The Pie Cart", which was described as a "kind of second-hand coffin drawn by one horse"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60314057 |title=Farmers and Producers' Political Union |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=17 July 1908 |accessdate=11 April 2014 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} and still in operation in 1923{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63441483 |title=Ancient and Modern |newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=21 July 1923 |accessdate=11 April 2014 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} This reference has a photo of the "Pie Cart". was later relegated to the Railways Museum{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93917945 |title=Port Broughton Pictures. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=1 February 1951 |accessdate=11 April 2014 |page=33 |via=National Library of Australia}} and the line dismantled.

Governance

The first local government established in the area was the District Council of Broughton, later called District Council of Redhill. Mundoora was never served by the historic District Council of Mundoora, which was instead based at Port Broughton, {{cvt|15|km|mi}} to the west. Today the township of Mundoora is in the District Council of Barunga West but the locality is at the meeting point of three local government areas, the Port Pirie Regional Council spanning the north east and Wakefield Regional Council spanning the south east corners of the locality.

Mundoora is in the state electorate of Narungga and the federal electorate of Grey.

References

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{{District Council of Barunga West localities|state=expanded}}

{{Port Pirie Regional Council localities|state=expanded}}

{{Wakefield Regional Council localities|state=expanded}}

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Category:Towns in South Australia

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