Shire of Hepburn

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = lga

| name = Hepburn Shire Council

| state = vic

| image = Australia Victoria Hepburn Shire.svg

| caption = Location in Victoria

| pop = 16,604

| pop_year = 2021

| pop_footnotes = {{cite web|title=3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018 |url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3218.02017-18|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=27 March 2019|access-date=25 October 2019}} Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.

| area = 1473

| area_footnotes =

| est = 1995

| gazetted = 19 January 1995{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1995&class=S&page_num=3&state=V&classNum=S2 |title=S2 of 1995: Order estg (Part 6) the Shire of Hepburn |author=Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive |year=1837–1997 |website=State Library of Victoria |publisher=State Government of Victoria |publication-date=19 January 1995 |page=3 |access-date=10 January 2014}}

| mayor = Brian Hood

| seat = Daylesford

| region = Grampians

| logo = Hepburn_shire_council_logo.png

| url = http://www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/

| stategov = Macedon

| stategov2 = Ripon

| fedgov = Ballarat

| near-nw = Central Goldfields

| near-n = Mount Alexander

| near-ne = Mount Alexander

| near-w = Pyrenees

| near-e = Macedon Ranges

| near-sw = Ballarat

| near-s = Moorabool

| near-se = Macedon Ranges

}}

The Shire of Hepburn is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of {{convert|1473|km2|mi2}} and, in the 2021 Census the shire had a population of 16,604.

It includes the towns of Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Trentham and the villages of Glenlyon, Allendale, Kingston, Leonard's Hill, Lyonville, Newlyn, Denver and Smeaton.

It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Creswick, Shire of Daylesford and Glenlyon and parts of the Shire of Kyneton and Shire of Talbot and Clunes.

The shire is governed and administered by the Hepburn Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Daylesford. It also has a service centre located in Creswick. The shire is named after an early squatter named John Hepburn, who established the Smeaton Hill pastoral run, which was located a few kilometres north of present-day Creswick.{{cite web |url=http://www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=1124 |title=Hepburn Shire – A Brief Profile |author=Hepburn Shire Council |website=Hepburn Shire Council |access-date=14 December 2013}}